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Flu Mutating

| Thu Jul. 9, 2009 5:13 PM PDT

— Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Barack Obama warned today of a resurgence of flu this autumn. But it's summer in the northern hemisphere. Hard to fret in warm weather. Right?

Well here are some developments worth the worry, summed up by New Scientist.

In June, more than 98 percent of genotyped flu cases in the US were caused by the pandemic swine flu—which is to be expected, since seasonal flus tend to die out in summer.

But the same high percentages of pandemic flu are appearing in the southern hemisphere, where swine flu, A(H1N1), is replacing the seasonal flu.

In the Australian state of Victoria, swine flu now accounts for 99 percent of all flu cases, with similar numbers from South America. The seasonal vaccine is proving useless.

The pandemics of 1918, 1957, and 1968 also completely replaced their seasonal flus.

Yet many drug companies are still laboring to produce seasonal flu vaccines for use later this year for the northern hemisphere—when they might well prove useless.

It's also possible that three viruses will be circulating later this year: the milder H1N1, plus H3N2, plus the swine flu A(H1N1). In this complicated scenario, seasonal and pandemic vaccines would be needed with people in different age groups requiring vaccines based on their exposure to past flus.

During previous pandemics, the pandemic virus mutated and its effects worsened. Some ominous signs are emerging now with swine flu, including a mutation to the virus's polymerase enzyme that allows it to replicate more efficiently. This mutation appeared in Shanghai and could make the virus more contagious or more virulent or both.

Three cases of resistance to the main antiviral drug Tamiflu were discovered last week in Denmark, Japan, and Hong Kong—including one in a girl who had never taken the drug. This suggests that Tamiflu-resistant swine flu might already be circulating.

Plus the news from Germany today that swine flu is capable of spreading from people to pigs and then rapidly between pigs. This was an experimental exposure in Germany. But if swine flu really does get loose in the ghastly world of pig farms, there's a risk of the virus mixing with other strains to create a real flu monster.

The German researchers were heartened the virus did not spread to five chickens housed with the pigs. That's the worst case scenario: a swine-avian flu hybrid. The H2N3 seasonal flu currently circulating has the ability to bridge that gap since it's composed of swine and avian flu genes dating back to the 1957 pandemic.

Enjoy smmer. Winter's going to get interesting.

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Prophecy

Submitted by smitisan on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 8:55 AM PDT.

What was that song Pink Floyd did on "Animals" about a revolt of factory farm pigs? Had a line in it something like "Then we'll make the buggers' eyes water." Payback's a bitch.

"You signed the papers. You wanted to be here!" -Drill Sgt. Leach, 1971

Swine Flu is manmade

Submitted by Chris (not verified) on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 4:00 PM PDT.

There is evidence that the flu virus is manmade and a conspiracy of epic purportions is in the works to institute forced vaccinations worldwide under the auspice of the WHO:

Wayne Madsen talks about how the Swine Flu is Engineered:
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-28/Swine_flu_is_manmade_viru...

There is also the Austrian journalist Jane Bürgermeister, who recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several high ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and outlines details related to forced innoculations on her blog:
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/

Beware of the scare mongering

Submitted by gstp on Sat Jul. 11, 2009 10:30 PM PDT.

Before the government even ATTEMPTS to vaccinate every man, woman, and child, it is important to look back at the Hell wrought by the supposed Swine Flu vaccine in 1976.

Here's Part 1 0f 3 from CBS' "60 Minutes" program. This segment aired once — and unusually, never repeated, even during the season of reruns.
1976 PROPAGANDA - SWINE FLU - PART I
http://kevinpmiller.blogspot.com/2009/07/1976-propaganda-swine-flu-part-...

In the UK, the first "death from swine flu" of an otherwise healthy individual was announced July 10 2009 by NHS authorities in Essex. At the wishes of the family, no details were given of the patient, so we cannot verify what happened to him.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/11/swine-flu-virus-death-essex

Until now, every adult and child who has died has had serious underlying health problems.

For more info: "Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/28/Swine-Flu....

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