[Cid_Yama]

Swine flu and MRSA superbug

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') DEADLY strain of superbug MRSA could team up with swine flu to kill thousands, experts said last night.
The drug-resistant bug triggers a lung condition that kills half its victims in under 72 HOURS.

It latches on to those already weakened by flu and rapidly spreads between people, new research shows.

Unlike most MRSA bugs it lives OUTSIDE hospitals — and could prove devastating in a swine flu outbreak, medics warned.

British doctors should be on full alert for an outbreak of the strain, called CA—MRSA, experts told top medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Epidemics expert Professor Mark C. Enright, of London’s Imperial College, said: “CA-MRSA pneumonia is particularly dangerous due to the aggressive nature of the infection and the difficulty in treatment.”

He said its threat raises the death risk among potential swine flu victims.

The bug can live in the nose or throat and pose no danger — but if the carrier is weakened by a virus like flu it can cause the aggressive form of pneumonia.

Dr Alicia Hidron of Emory University in Atlanta, raised the alert about the twin threat.

She found that, unlike many forms of MRSA, it hits the young rather than the old and frail.

In one case, a previously healthy 45-year-old woman spread it to her 36-year-old male partner.

The most lethal strain of CA-MRSA — called USA300 — is now the most common infection-causing superbug in the US.

“The threat from CA-MRSA in the US is a very serious concern, especially if there is an epidemic. It could trigger a large number of cases of necrotizing pneumonia, which has a mortality rate of 50 per cent in 72 hours.”

[Cid_Yama]

Docs Fear Deadly Combo of Flu, MRSA
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')ne is a viral illness responsible for an estimated 35,000 deaths every year. The other is a potentially deadly superbug, a horrifying legacy of antibiotic overuse that is now resistant to almost every treatment today's doctors can throw at it.

Even on their own, infection with either influenza or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can lead to a grave situation. But now, health officials are keeping an eye out for an even more harrowing threat -- simultaneous infection with both diseases. And they say that, in children at least, these cases of co-incident infection appear to be on the rise.

"The association of influenza viral infection disrupting the mucosa to permit secondary bacterial infection is not new," says Dr. Jerome Klein, professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. "This is what happened in the influenza pandemic in 1957, which was co-incident with a pandemic of multidrug resistant staphylococcal infections. Not only were the elderly and immunocompromised prone to the combination, but otherwise healthy individuals were felled with substantial morbidity and mortality."

"The public health groups in the state and the CDC are concerned about a confluence as 'the perfect storm'."

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('IslandCrow', 'A')t this stage it does not look like the pandemic will make much of a dent in world population.

[threadbear]

My husband and I were planning on flying to Maui this winter. I've been feeling really apprehensive about making any major travelling plans lately. My mother's ill. We have to re-roof the house and I'm still not over the respiratory thing I got last December, the first one I've had in over 20 years. I am SO happy we've decided not to go. Though I agree with SPG, that the swine flu doesn't appear, at this point, to be any worse than any other flu bug, I'm still feeling a bit cautious about it and don't want to make any plans that I can't cancel easily. And trying to cancel flight plans and get your money back can be impossible, or extremely difficult.

[eXpat]

US passes million swine flu cases
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S health officials estimate that at least one million Americans have been infected with swine flu since the H1N1 virus emerged nearly three months ago. The number is far higher than cases actually reported to the authorities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said many cases were mild, although 127 people had died. The CDC based its figures on surveys, rather than laboratory evidence, but the numbers suggest the death rate from swine flu is lower than thought. "We're saying that there have been at least a million cases of the new H1N1 virus so far this year in the United States," said Anne Schuchat of the CDC.

"Reported cases are really just the tip of the iceberg." The CDC has based its estimate on mathematical modelling, based on surveys by health officials. If the figures are correct, it is reassuring news, because it indicates that the fatality rate from swine flu is even lower than thought, says BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh.

However, Dr Schuchat warned that swine flu might exhibit higher infection rates than seasonal flu and could return in a more virulent form in the autumn.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Arsenal', 'F')irst hand view from Ferfal in Argentina.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he big news here is A flu. It’s just ripping through us, as anyone would have guessed since there just NO government to do anything about it. They just deny, deny and deny.
A-flu has affected swine here in Buenos Aires, and then back to humans, it affected everyone in a meat processing plant.
I’m worried and we’re talking about leaving the country. You visibly see and hear a huge amount of sick people. We try staying home as much as possible, use masks when going outside, use lots of hand sanitizer and shower. Our kids don’t leave the house anymore, my oldest one isn’t going to school (3 weeks now).

[Quinny]

We've just been on our holidays to the Cornawll in the Southwest of England.

First night we spent in a Bristol hotel, and the local evening news announced an outbreak at Bristol University.

Next day we arrived in Cornwall to the news that a Penzanze school had an outbreak. Later in the week it was Exeter University and finally this morning the news said there had been an outbreak at Glastonbury where they'd quarantined several sufferers.

Couple of points:

1. Haven't heard anything on local Northwest or National news, is the Southwest a particular hotspot.
2. If there's been an outbreak at Glastonbury, I'd think it's now travelling to places throughout the UK as there are a lot of people there!

[kiwichick]

scientists have developed 1st batch of swine flu vaccine
they developed it using insects
enough for approx 1000 doses
will use it for trials

sorry don't have alink

i think they are based in Brisbane

[kiwichick]

i think we are up to 7 deaths in OZ

but we normally have 2500 to 3000 annually from normal flu

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;It's possible the virus has mutated. In autumn the mutated form could spread to the northern hemisphere and back to Germany," Hacker told a news conference in Berlin.

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he University of Queensland in Brisbane is working with US firm Protein Sciences Corporation (PSC) to produce vaccines faster using new technology.

The university has produced Australia's first batch of a new candidate vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu virus, after signing an agreement with PSC to recreate it in Australia.

Professor Anton Middelberg from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology says researchers used the latest cell culture vaccine technology.

``We only received the genetic construct from PSC two weeks ago and we have been able to produce the vaccine already, which is an amazing achievement,'' he said.

Professor Middelberg said the company is planning to run clinical human trials in the US, Mexico and Australia.

``We are expecting Australia will be one of the first to benefit from this new technology.

``It all depends on the regulatory process but I say we are months away from a swine flu vaccine.''

The vaccine is not yet registered for use in Australia, but Professor Middelberg said it was hoped that clinical trials could be fast tracked.

The new technology allows scientists to create vaccines more quickly and more accurately than growing live viruses in eggs.

[Cid_Yama]

Swine flu's roots traced to 1918 Cedar Rapids show

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he current H1N1 swine flu strain has genetic roots in an illness that sickened pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa.

For pig farmers in Iowa, everything changed after the Cedar Rapids Swine Show, which was held from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5 of that year.

Just as the 1918 pandemic spread the human influenza A (H1N1) virus worldwide and killed 40 million to 50 million people, herds of swine were hit with a respiratory illness that closely resembled the flu affecting humans, with sicentists believing the human virus actually adapted to the pig.

Like humans, pigs with swine flu had runny noses and fevers and could transmit the virus to their human handlers. When the 1918 swine show ended, newly infected pigs were returned to farms throughout the Midwest, contributing to the spread of the deadly virus.

In the new University of Pittsburgh report, senior author Dr. Donald S. Burke, said early experiments confirmed the 1918 swine virus and a human strain emerged about the same time.

“Since then, this ancestor virus has re-assorted genetically with other influenza strains at least four times, leading to the emergence of the new 2009 strain, which has retained some similarities to the original virus,” he said.

Burke and lead author Dr. Shanta M. Zimmer, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, describe the temporary “extinction” of the H1N1 virus from humans in 1957 and its subsequent re-emergence 20 years later.

Given the genetic similarity of these strains, re-emergence was likely due to an accidental release during laboratory studies of the 1950 strain that had been preserved as a “freezer” virus, they said.

[Cid_Yama]

I did find an interesting article for all you conspiracy theorists out there.

From 2003:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he 'Spanish Flu' influenza virus that killed 20-40 million people in 1918 is currently under reconstruction. Several genes of the extraordinarily lethal 1918 flu virus have been isolated and introduced into contemporary flu strains. These proved to be lethal for mice, while virus constructs with genes from a current flu virus types had hardly any effect. These experiments may easily be abused for military purposes, but provide little benefit from a medical or public health point of view.

The 1918 Spanish Flu was highly infectious and – in comparison to contemporary flu viruses – killed a very high percentage of those infected, including many younger people. The Spanish Flu alone caused the medium life expectancy in the US in 1918 to drop by 10 years. Hence, flu viruses are perceived today as a serious biological warfare threat. Just two weeks ago, a 15 million dollar research grant was awarded in the US to develop protective measures especially against a bioterrorist attack with flu viruses.

Despite the very dangerous nature of the 1918 virus, efforts to reconstruct it started in the mid 1990s, when Dr Jeffrey Taubenberger from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC succeeded in recovering and sequencing fragments of the viral RNA from preserved tissues of 1918 victims. In the current issue of the scientific journal Emerging Infectious Diseases new genetic details of the 1918 flu virus will be published.

But after (partially) unravelling the genetic sequence of the virus, the scientists went a step further and began bringing the Spanish flu back to life. Unnoticed by the public, they succeeded in creating a live virus containing two 1918 genes that proved to be very lethal in animal experiments. This experiment is only one genetic step away from taking the 1918 demon entirely out of the bottle.

A resuscitation of the Spanish flu is neither necessary nor warranted from a public health point of view. Allegedly, the recent experiments sought to test the efficacy of existing antiviral drugs on the 1918 construct. But there is little need for antiviral drugs against the 1918 strain if the 1918 strain had not been recreated in the first place "It simply does not make any scientific sense to create a new threat just to develop new countermeasures against it." says Jan van Aken, biologist with the Sunshine Project, "Genetic characterization of influenza strains has important biomedical applications. But it is not justifiable to recreate this particularly dangerous eradicated strain that could wreak havoc if released, deliberately or accidentally."

[pablonite]

Obama gets billions for ‘pandemic’ Swine Flu
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=14086

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the United States, the Obama Administration has strong-armed the US Congress to appropriate 300% more money for Swine Flu ‘preparedness’ than Congress planned. Responding to lobbying by the Obama administration, the US Congress has approved an eye-popping $7.65 billion for the non-proven pandemic influenza.

Curiously enough, the money was included in a $106 billion supplemental appropriation bill for funding the military wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

...The new money will give a major ‘shot in the arm’ to the pharmaceutical giants like Roche, maker of Don Rumsfeld’s favourite ‘antiviral’ Tamiflu, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and other global vaccine giants...

...Germany has a reported 275 ‘confirmed’ cases of H1N1. Yet there exists no test that confirms presence of H1N1 virus...

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', '[')b]US passes million swine flu cases

[Shar_Lamagne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Young males head the swine flu count

MALES, aged 5 to 29 years, are most likely to contract swine flu, new data shows.

South Australia has recorded 573 confirmed cases, of which 70 were males, aged 15 to 19. There also have been 50 cases in boys, aged 10 to 14, and 50 in men, aged 20 to 24. The next highest group is girls, aged 15 to 19, with 48 cases.

While the swine flu count has risen sharply – from 59 three weeks ago – many more likely diagnoses remain unconfirmed as the Health Department has stopped laboratory testing every suspected case. Only 2 per cent of swine flu cases were in people aged 60 and more.

link

[DrBang]

Some tinfoil for you guys.


http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pande ... orism.html


Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
Thursday, June 25, 2009 by: Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor

(NaturalNews) As the anticipated July release date for Baxter's A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway. Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder. She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.

Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June 10, 2009

In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.

Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.

The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the "bird flu" virus and the "swine flu virus" in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.

Burgermeister's charges include evidence that Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties. She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.









Full article in link above.



It would be really nice of this is bullshit. On the other hand it fits the profile with a whole lot of other scary stuff posted on this site. (oh fuck)

Dr Bang

[pablonite]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... atory.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he study in The New England Journal of Medicine said: 'Careful study of the genetic origin of the (1977) virus showed that it was closely related to a 1950 strain, but dissimilar to influenza 'A' (H1N1) strains from both 1947 and 1957.

'This finding suggested that the 1977 outbreak strain has been preserved since 1950. The re-emergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source.'

[eXpat]

Time to ditch your stocks of tamiflu?
Tamiflu-Resistant Flu Found in Three World Regions
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')uly 9 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu resistant to Roche Holding AG’s antiviral drug Tamiflu has been detected in at least three world regions, raising concern the pandemic virus is developing immunity to the medicine, health officials said.

The drug-resistant cases “need to be watched,” though recommended use of Tamiflu hasn’t changed, said Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Frieden spoke at a swine flu meeting in Washington organized by U.S. health officials to plan for outbreaks.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the government is making $350 million in grants available to states and hospitals to prepare for an increase in swine flu cases. The H1N1 virus, unlike seasonal flu, is targeting the young and causing potentially fatal complications in otherwise healthy people aged 30 to 50, pregnant women and those with asthma, diabetes and obesity, according to the World Health Organization.

“The possibility of an anti-viral resistant strain emerging is a serious consideration,” Sebelius said at the conference. “To date, antiviral medications have proven effective against the disease in most cases.”

Sibelius said applications for the grants are due in the next two weeks, and the money will distributed by the end of this month.

Resistance

Last week, Hong Kong’s health department said Tamiflu- resistant swine flu was found in a teen who hadn’t taken the pill. It was the first known instance of resistance in a swine flu patient not treated with Tamiflu, stockpiled by governments worldwide to fight pandemic influenza. Cases of Tamiflu- resistant flu have also been reported in Denmark and Japan.

[pablonite]

Canadian Doctor. H1N1 Vaccination: A Eugenics Weapon for “Massive & Targeted Reduction of the World Population.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14312
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..Lanctôt warns that the elite and their minions will introduce a compulsory vaccination that will contain a deadly virus and this will be used specifically as a eugenics weapon for “massive and targeted reduction of the world population.” Moreover, a pandemic will also be used to further establish martial law and a police state, according to Lanctôt, and activate concentration camps “built to accommodate the rebellious” and eventually transfer power from all nations to a single United Nations government and thus fulfill the sinister plans of the New World Order...

...“Because of my professional status, my words weighed significantly in the public eye. The Medical Board’s reaction was immediate and strong. Its leaders demanded that I resign as a physician. I answered that I would do so as long as they could prove that what I had written was false. The Medical Board replied with a call for my expulsion,”...