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A new flu virus that is occasionally jumping from pigs to people has done it again.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is reporting that the new swine influenza H3N2 virus has infected four people who attended a county fair in Indiana.
Indiana is one of six U.S. states in which human infections have been found since this variant H3N2 virus was first spotted at the end of last July.
The four latest cases were all people who had contact with pigs; they became infected in early-to-mid July after exhibiting pigs at a county fair in the northwestern part of the state.
The CDC says 12 pigs from the fair were tested for the virus and all were positive.
Dr. Michael Jhung of the CDC says while state health officials are still looking for additional cases, to date there doesn’t seem to have been human-to-human spread in this cluster of infections.
Including these cases, there have been 17 human infections with this virus, all in the United States.
The infections have mainly been seen in children. Many, though not all, had exposure to pigs. In some of the earlier cases, the CDC acknowledged limited person-to-person spread had likely occurred.
The new Indiana cases came to light when two of the people went to a hospital emergency department because of their illness. None of the four was admitted to hospital and all have recovered.
With the start of the agricultural fair season, health officials in the U.S. are on the lookout for more cases, says Jhung, an epidemiologist with the CDC’s Influenza Division.
“We’re trying to reach out through animal health partners and public health partners to people who organize fairs, people who attend fairs and send them the typical (flu) prevention messages,” Jhung said in an interview from Atlanta.
“We’re asking them to pay special attention to handwashing and not eating or drinking in areas where there are animals and to avoid contact with sick animals.”
The virus is a distant cousin of the human H3N2 viruses that circulate every flu season. In fact, the swine virus originates from the human one; it was passed from people to pigs years ago and has circulated among swine populations ever since.
At some point after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the swine virus picked up a gene from the pandemic virus. Scientists believe this gene, the M gene, enhances the virus’s ability to move from pigs to people.
It remains unclear what kind of a threat the swine H3N2 poses to people.
Research done by CDC scientists suggests children under 10 are probably the most vulnerable to the virus. Older people probably have some antibodies that would protect against it, that work suggests.
But Canadian research points to a sharp drop in protective antibodies in people over the age of 40.
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,968,538I just KNOW this new virus was developed by the CIA, the Illuminati or those pesky REPTILIANS!
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The president of Uganda is calling on people in the East African country to avoid physical contact, including handshaking and kissing, to prevent the spread of the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus that is believed to have killed 14 people in the last few weeks.
The disease has no known cure or vaccine and some strains can kill up to 90 percent of victims within days. Ugandans are so fearful of the disease that residents in Kibaale province where the outbreak was reported said that people immediately fled the hospital after hearing patients with Ebola were there.
In a nationally televised speech today, President Yoweri Museveni said health officials are working to contain the disease to the rural district where the outbreak was confirmed Saturday, but at least one of the suspected victims was taken to a hospital in the capital city of Kampala. Now, nearly two dozen medical workers at Mulago Hospital are being held in isolation.
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This is a reply to # 1,969,7362009 H1N1 HOAX? Give me a F------ break!
WHAT? The H1N1 flu virus doesn't exist?
WHAT? The H1N1 flu virus did not infect humans in 2009?
WHAT? The H1N1 flu virus does not have the POTENTIAL, as is historically documented with all similar viruses, to mutate into a highly virulent, contagious and life threatening viral epidemic?
"DAMNED IF YOU DO AND DAMNED IF YOU DON'T"
Tens of thousands of Americans die as a direct result of an "average" flu season. If a serious H1N1 flu virus pandemic had, in fact, occurred, medical and public health organizations would have been BROILED ALIVE for not having done everything they possibly could in preventive measures!- Re: 2009 H1N1 hoax? befurther
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It is a well known fact that H1N1 infections were over reported, typical flu cases were reported as H1N1 inorder to boost the numbers of those supposedly infected by H1N1. All to sell more vaccines by the Governments corprate partners. The result...Guillanne-Barr syndrom for many of those who chose to be customers. So yes, It was a hoax. As far as government officials being broiled alive, that is almost laughable, everyone knows the government stooges and vaccines manufacturers are pretty much IMMUNE from prosecution. If the government really wanted to help people they would promote the use of Vitamin D. But unfortunately that is not in the best interst of the Corporations, So it is a NO, NO.
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This is a reply to # 1,970,107If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn't have H1N1 flu.
In fact, you probably didn't have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.
The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1 flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu.
Why the uncertainty about who has and who hasn't had H1N1 flu?In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic?
Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu virus strains.
CBS News learned that the decision to stop counting H1N1 flu cases was made so hastily that states weren't given the opportunity to provide input. Instead, on July 24, the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists, CSTE, issued the following notice to state public health officials on behalf of the CDC:
"Attached are the Q&As that will be posted on the CDC website tomorrow explaining why CDC is no longer reporting case counts for novel H1N1. CDC would have liked to have run these by you for input but unfortunately there was not enough time before these needed to be posted (emphasis added)."
When CDC did not provide us with the material, we filed a Freedom of Information request with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). More than two months later, the request has not been fulfilled. We also asked CDC for state-by-state test results prior to halting of testing and tracking, but CDC was again, initially, unresponsive.www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/cbsnews_investigates/main5404829.shtml
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Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed"
2009 H1N1 or "swine flu"in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn't have H1N1 flu.
In fact, you probably didn't have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.
The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1 flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu.
Why the uncertainty about who has and who hasn't had H1N1 flu?
Attkisson Blogs: Freedom of Information Stalled at CDC
CBSNews.com report on H1N1
In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic?
Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu virus strains.
CBS News learned that the decision to stop counting H1N1 flu cases was made so hastily that states weren't given the opportunity to provide input. Instead, on July 24, the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists, CSTE, issued the following notice to state public health officials on behalf of the CDC:
"Attached are the Q&As that will be posted on the CDC website tomorrow explaining why CDC is no longer reporting case counts for novel H1N1. CDC would have liked to have run these by you for input but unfortunately there was not enough time before these needed to be posted (emphasis added)."
When CDC did not provide us with the material, we filed a Freedom of Information request with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). More than two months later, the request has not been fulfilled. We also asked CDC for state-by-state test results prior to halting of testing and tracking, but CDC was again, initially, unresponsive.
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Video above: A CBS News producer asks the director of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden, for this information at a press conference on Sept. 19.
While we waited for CDC to provide the data, which it eventually did, we asked all 50 states for their statistics on state lab-confirmed H1N1 prior to the halt of individual testing and counting in July. The results reveal a pattern that surprised a number of health care professionals we consulted. The vast majority of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as seasonal flu, despite the fact that many states were specifically testing patients deemed to be most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk factors, such as travel to Mexico.
(CBS/Gordon Donovan)
It's unknown what patients who tested negative for flu were actually afflicted with since the illness was not otherwise determined. Health experts say it's assumed the patients had some sort of cold or upper respiratory infection that is just not influenza.
With most cases diagnosed solely on symptoms and risk factors, the H1N1 flu epidemic may seem worse than it is. For example, on Sept. 22, this alarming headline came from Georgetown University in Washington D.C.:
"H1N1 Flu Infects Over 250 Georgetown Students."
H1N1 flu can be deadly and an outbreak of 250 students would be an especially troubling cluster. However, the number of sick students came not from lab-confirmed tests but from "estimates" made by counting "students who went to the Student Health Center with flu symptoms, students who called the H1N1 hotline or the Health Center's doctor-on-call, and students who went to the hospital's emergency room."
Without lab testing, it's impossible to know how many of the students actually had H1N1 flu. But the statistical trend indicates it was likely much fewer than 250.
CDC continues to monitor flu in general and H1N1 through "sentinels," which basically act as spot-checks to detect trends around the nation. But at least one state, California, has found value in tracking H1N1 flu in greater detail.
"What we are doing is much more detailed and expensive than what CDC wants," said Dr. Bela Matyas, California's Acting Chief of Emergency Preparedness and Response. "We're gathering data better to answer how severe is the illness. With CDC's fallback position, there are so many uncertainties with who's being counted, it's hard to know how much we're seeing is due to H1N1 flu rather than a mix of influenza diseases generally. We can tell that apart but they can't."
After our conversation with Dr. Matyas, public affairs officials with the California Department of Public Health emphasized to CBS News that they support CDC policy to stop counting individual cases, maintaining that the state has the resources to gather more specific testing data than the CDC.
Because of the uncertainties, the CDC advises even those who were told they had H1N1 to get vaccinated unless they had lab confirmation. "Persons who are uncertain about how they were diagnosed should get the 2009 H1N1 vaccine."
That's unwelcome news for a Marietta, Georgia mom whose two children were diagnosed with "probable" H1N1 flu over the summer. She hoped that would mean they wouldn't need the hastily developed H1N1 flu vaccine. However, since their cases were never confirmed with lab tests, the CDC advises they get the vaccine. "I wish they had tested and that I knew for sure whether they had it. I'm not anxious to give them an experimental vaccine if they don't need it."
Speaking to CBS' "60 Minutes," CDC Director Dr. Frieden saidhe has confidence that the vaccine will be safe and effective: "We're confident it will be effective we have every reason to believe that it will be safe."
However, the CDC recommendation for those who had "probable" or "presumed" H1N1 flu to go ahead and get vaccinated anyway means the relatively small proportion of those who actually did have H1N1 flu will be getting the vaccine unnecessarily. This exposes them to rare but significant side effects, such as paralysis from
Guillain-Barre syndrome.
It also uses up vaccine, which is said to be in short supply. The CDC was hoping to have shipped 40 million doses by the end of October, but only about
30 million doses will be available this month.
The CDC did not response to questions from CBS News for this report.
Washington Unplugged: H1N1 Cases Exaggerated?
H1N1 Misdiagnoses Could Have Consequences
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This outbreak is particularly significant, not only because of the disease it caused in seals but also because the virus has naturally acquired mutations that are known to increase transmissibility and virulence in mammals.
The above comments are in the “significance" summary of the newly published mBio paper, “Emergence of Fatal Avian Influenza in New England Harbor Seals” by researchers at Columbia University. The paper describes sequences from five H3N8 sets of sequences from seals who died in late 2011 off the New England coast. The “naturally acquired mutation” of greatest concern was D701N in PB2, which is an acquisition which is known to increase avian influenza transmission in mammalian hosts.
The released PB2 sequence from a September, 2011 sample, A/harbor seal/Massachusetts/1/2011, like all five PB2 sequences, has D701N due to G2101A. However, this change and the downstream sequence is an exact match with H3N8 PB2 sequences which are common in canine and equine isolates (see GISAID list here).
Moreover, in addition to G2101A, the PB2 sequence has acquired a cluster of three silent changes (C768T, C774T, G777A), which would have less selection pressure, yet all three changes are in a similar set of canine and equine H3N8 sequences (see list here).
The acquisition of these mammalian polymorphisms on an avian genetic background signal rapid evolution of the avian sequences toward mammalian transmission, and raise concerns of unknown hosts serving as mixing vessels for recombination and rapid influenza evolution.
www.recombinomics.com/News/07311203/H3N8_Seal_PB2_Recombination.html
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A number of reports within the mainstream news arena have begun surfacing surrounding the newly emerging H3N8 'seal flu virus', labeling it as the ‘next pandemic’ and hammering on the possibility for the virus to spread among humans.
It seems that the media ultimately likes to hype up all pandemic ‘threats’ whether it be the notoriously-mild swine flu ‘pandemic’ or the looming bird flu explosion. With the surfacing of so many touted pandemics and alarming viruses always comes a push for rushed vaccinations, later followed by haunting reports of severe side effects (and years later confirmed by medical journals.)
But what about the seal flu virus? Is it a real threat, or a phony pandemic scare?
The strain was first examined in New England among harbor seals by scientific researchers, killing over 162 of the seals over a four-month period. After launching an investigation headed by virologist W. Ian Lipkin, MD, of Columbia University, it was found that the mutated virus had actually transmitted from sea birds to the seals themselves.
The virus had mutated in a number of ways after affecting the seals, such as being able to spread among mammals — or at least from seal to seal as of right now. The virus infected the seals' lung tissue and airways, and eventually became even more virulent.
Will the Seal Flu Virus be Combined with Bird Flu H5N1 to Make a ‘Super Virus’?
Of course the largest concern with this virus is the possibility that it will spread to humans from animals. Considering that it has already mutated somewhat substantially, mainstream media organizations are already sounding the alarm for pandemic mode. Experts say, however, that it’s highly unlikely that the H3N8 seal flu virus will even spread to humans. That is unless, of course, the mammal-adapted H3N8 were to combine with the H5N1 bird flu virus. Such a combination and subsequent mutations would provide a recipe for a potentially deadly ‘super’ virus.
What’s most concerning is the fact that this could most easily be expedited in a laboratory setting, making the virus highly weaponized.
It may sound outlandish to some, but bioterrorism experts have previously confirmed that such a concern does exist — even with the bird flu virus itself. When scientists
recently publishedresearch on how to develop a highly-weaponized version of the H5N1 bird flu that could easily spread among humans, experts on bioterrorism began to speak out.
One such foremost expert on the subject is Paul Keim, chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. In a statement on just how serious of an impact just weaponized bird flu could have on the world, Keim
stated:
This is such a dangerous biological weapon, it would not be controllable. Whoever used it would doubtlessly decimate their own people as well.
It is quite easy, then, to see how a weaponized version of the human-adapted seal virus — a merger of two deadly strains — is particularly concerning. In the event that such a bioterrorism act were committed by a group or individual, it could be severely problematic. Whether or not this scenario will unfold is yet to be seen; however, it seems to be the most significant manner in which a real pandemic could develop through artificial means.
My Recommended ‘Pandemic’ Kit to Keep Year Round Regardless of Media Scare
It is essential to begin bolstering up your immune system regardless of whether or not a new ‘pandemic’ is on the horizon. In addition to switching to high-quality organic foods, drinking pure water, and performing sweat-inducing activities on a daily basis, here are my recommended ‘pandemic’ substances list to keep in your home at all times:
- Oil of oregano
- Liquid turmeric
- High-quality colloidal silver purchased from a reputable provider (Supernatural Silver is a great provider and is even approved by the FDA, believe it or not)
- 5,000 IU doses of Vitamin D3
- Nascent atomic iodine
- Probiotics or fermented foods like kefir
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No flu or other illness shall go unexploited when there is money to be made.
Whaddy think - Flu shot of the Month club. Coming soon to a CVC Pharmacy near you?
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This is a reply to # 1,970,058It's not worth getting too riled up about this anti-vax cult here - Keep your kool. Just remember that they all slept through Science class in high school.
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LOL! The fact is that vaccination is a ritual carried out by a cult. Being against such rituals is not cultish. Also In mode-earn science test subjects are considered to be sacrifices. Anybody that places science on an pedestal as if it is infallible, and follows the ceremonies, and rites of the mode-earn medical system meets the very definition of being in a cult...
an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers
a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.something regarded as fashionable or significant by a particular group...Admirers of vaccines often make quips regarding science and their somehow superior understanding of science. Trying to raise it above all else. Science is merely accumulated knowledge that is only as good as the words and data it is communicated in.
To state that someone slept through science class is in itself an unscientific statement, when the person lacks the accumulated data of actually experiencing someone falling asleep in their science class. In other words the statement is a lie.
Enjoy your vaccine rituals! Obviously you find them to be fashionable.
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This is a reply to # 1,970,460Two enlightening books about Science - Read them if you dare:
Carl Sagan's "A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
Michael Shermer's "Why People Believe Wierd Things"- Re: Science befurther
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Haven't read... Michael Shermer's "Why People Believe Wierd Things"
But there is definitely something weird about injecting toxins, virus, and foreign DNA into ones bloodsteram in order to obtain "immunity" , not testing it for long term effects and then saying it is a highly scientific procedure as opposed to a cult ritual.
Talk about defying logic!
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By Susanne Posel
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July 31, 2012The 2012 International AIDS Conference (IAC) has attracted 40,000 of the world’s leading scientists, researchers, advocates and eugenicists to Washington DC. The topics of discussion are HIV vaccines, preventative measures and public policy.
A focus on under-developed nations and controlling the spread of HIV has prompted initiatives in countries like Puerto Rico by combining propaganda and forced participation in medical services.
Bill Gates, supporter of eugenics, spoke at the IAC. Gates asserted that the UN is showing the globally, HIV/AIDS is still “a problem”. While wealthy, industrialized nations, like the US, are the backbone of funding and research and development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have pledged $2.5 billion in HIV grants directly to the UN’sGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria .
Gates is speaking with pharmaceutical corporations like Merck to assist in an HIV vaccine and support the use of citizens in under-developed nations for “a series of clinical trials” to ensure that an immunization is approved for global use.
At this year’s IAC, no mention is made of the origins of HIV, how the bioweapon targets black people, and how it’s domination over nations in Africa and India support the eugenics agenda.
Speakers at the conference overlook such facts as in 1962, the US Senate received a report concerning chemical and biological warfare. This is the government contract where HIV-like and Ebola-like viruses were bio-engineered by the US military and the bioweapons contracting lab Biomedics. They were producing viral cancer in monkeys that could then be used through genetic engineering to infect humans.
Robert Gallo, working with the National Cancer Institute, was part of this project. Millions of people are dying from this US sponsored government project to depopulate certain groups of people because of their ethnic heritage; and the US Congress knew about it, and endorsed its use.
These biological agents are classified as “non-lethal warfare” because the morality is not instantaneous. Rockefeller and Stanford globalist think-tanks came up with the concept of ethnic cleansing by way of prolonged infection so that the target and cause could not be correlated. Biologicals and chemicals provide this covert mass extermination. According to the global Elite, this form of depopulation is economically sound as a stand form of military “soft kill.”
Foundations are building relationships with corporations, like AIDS United and Johnson&Johnson , to oversee prevention measures and healthcare services in “high-risk communities”; specifically areas dominated by African-American people in America.
The concept of the GENERATIONS program will secure financial monies to pharmaceutical corporations for development and distribution of HIV related information, education, technical assistance and the training of local evaluators to come into “high-risk communities” to promote eugenics based initiatives masked as ad hoc “good ideas.
GENERATIONS programs will be used all across America and eventually worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who have been integral in purveying the deception of HIV and using fear-mongering tactics to keep the general public in the dark concerning the origin of HIV/AIDS, is blaming poverty, drug addiction and domestic violence as causations of HIV spreading so rapidly.
The CDC has focused a campaign along with data from The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey to justify claiming that US high school students need to have classes tailored to government regulated HIV/AIDS propaganda taught in public schools.
The International AIDS Society released the survey data to correlate with their conference in Washington, DC. The purpose is to “think about opportunities . . . to refine efforts,” according to Kevin Fenton, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention.
The survey concluded that 40% of African-American youth are at risk. Because 1.1 million Americans suffer from HIV, Laura Kann, CDC scientist explains: “Too many high school students in this country are at risk for HIV because they have had sexua| intercourse, had multiple sex partners and are having unprotected sexua| intercourse without a condom. Any kid that is practicing those behaviors is putting themselves at risk.”
The CDC is decrying spending cut-backs are impeding their ability to educate American black youth about the dangers of HIV/AIDS. They are focusing on “school-based investments” and hope to get more cash to assist them in funding programs in the future.
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