Swine flu...update 4 25 09 Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine!

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[OK, a lot of stuff to read, some of it a little scary, some of it may be over reactionary, but you never know. I recommend just reading and thinking things through and making decisions about what plans you might make and preparations should the spread of the flu continue. In the mean time, get well, get sleep, build your immune system, watch a funny movie, etc. etc. Take care of yourself and stay centered.]

 

 

Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine!From Patricia Doyle, PhD4-25-9

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Jeff -

I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU.

Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given. Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come. I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine.

Do not take seasonal flu vaccine if you are told that it could help prevent this brand new Swine Flu variant. It won't do a thing to prevent this flu. What it will do is serve up new genetic material to the Swine Flu virus that I have dubbed Spanish Flu 2, the Sequel. The Spanish Flu variant will use the gene sequences in the vaccine in humans to develop more of the changes that make the virus more readily infect humans. We do not want to give this virus more human genetic material so that it will infect humans more readily person to person. This is what vaccinated individuals do for pandemic strains.

There is also a safety issue in any experimental vaccine, much like the one in 1976. Some people even feel that such a vaccine for pandemic strain might require more than one vaccination which could actually be a binary set up. The first shot might just add some genetic code that stays dormant in the body until one gets the second vaccine shot which then serves to only cause infection. It could trigger Guillain-barre syndrome, Typhus or some other condition.

An Influenza vaccine does not protect or prevent a person from contracting flu. It is purported to, maybe, prevent some complications of flu and maybe shorten duration. I am not even sure it does that. Personally, I feel the vaccine weakens our immune system and also sickens us due to contaminants in the vaccine. I feel that people can better protect themselves by washing hands often and thoroughly. People should also use protective gloves when out and about during epidemics. Don't be afraid of "looking odd." I would not be ashamed to use a mask and gloves. I see that the Mexicans are using them.

A big problem during a pandemic is that these simple supplies will become extremely scarce awfully quickly. Stock up now. Medical supplies. personal hygene supplies and don't forget fido, or any other pet. Once a pandemic hits, it will be too late to stock up. Water, too.

We may lose clean water and electric power, so be prepared.

So, please, people, DON'T TAKE ANY VACCINES OFFERED. THEY COULD KILL YOU BEFORE ANY VIRUS KILLS YOU.

Pat Doyle

Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

 

 

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Swine Flu UpdateFrom Patricia Doyle, PhD4-25-9

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Jeff -

"The virus contains gene segments from 4 different influenza types: North American swine, North American avian, human, and Eurasian swine."

The Mexican virus is, indeed, the same virus we see in the US, the Swine Flu virus.

Watch now as the illegals will be flooding across the US borders. Why aren't we hearing that the military is being sent to the border to protect the US from the influx of both healthy and sick Mexicans? I can guarantee Mexicans have been flooding into the US since the illness began.

(The answer, of course, is that the Globalist Zionist Illuminati plans call for the US to be taken down in a number of ways...not the least of which are the orders to our 'government' not to protect our international borders. 35 million illegals have been intentionally vectored into this country...35 million cancer cells...in order to destroy our heritage, our infrastructure and our national cultural and social identity. At the same time, the US 'government' carried out Zionist Illiminati orders to destroy the entire sovereign nation of Iraq and 2-3 million of its people...and to murder another 2-3 million Afghans to date. Another Holocaust by any measure. JR)

There will be no room in US hospitals for US citizens because Mexicans will get there first. They will infect our health care workers...and we WILL lose our doctors, nurses and most of our health care system.

As usual, US citizens in our own country are treated as second class. Meanwhile, the treasonous Congress continues to sell America out.

It is time for us to get vocal...to get deadly serious. Close the border. ...or a US citizen militia should close it for us. We don't have much time left.

Patty

Update

[1] and [2] Strain identity [3] Pandemic warning [4] Outbreak in NY ?

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[1] Strain identity Fri 24 Apr 2009 Source: CIDRAP News [edited] http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2409swine.html

Labs confirm same swine flu in deadly Mexican outbreaks

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Samples from a deadly respiratory illness outbreak in Mexico match swine influenza isolates from patients in the United States who had milder illnesses, an official from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today [24 Apr 2009], fueling speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) could be on the verge of raising the global pandemic alert level. Richard Besser, MD, CDC's acting director, told reporters today during a press teleconference that the development is worrisome. "Our concern has grown since yesterday, based on what we've learned," he said. "We do not know if this will lead to the next pandemic, but our scientists are monitoring it and take the threat very seriously."

The swine flu A/H1N1 strain has been confirmed in one more US citizen, a child from San Diego who has recovered, raising the total number of US cases to 8, Besser said. The virus contains gene segments from 4 different influenza types: North American swine, North American avian, human, and Eurasian swine.

WHO said today that Mexican officials have reported 3 separate events. In the Federal District, the number of cases rose steadily through April, and as of yesterday, more than 854 cases of pneumonia, 59 of them fatal, had been reported in Mexico City. The illness outbreak in Mexico City prompted the country's health minister, Jose Cordova, to cancel classes in Mexico City today and advise students and adults to avoid crowded public places and large events, Bloomberg News reported. Mexican officials also reported 24 cases with 3 deaths from an influenza-like illness in San Luis Potosi, in the central part of the country, and 4 cases with no deaths in Mexicali, near the US border, WHO reported.

The virus in Mexico has primarily struck otherwise healthy young adults, WHO said, which is a departure from seasonal influenza, which typically affects the very young and very old. CDC's laboratory analyzed 14 samples from severely ill Mexican patients and found that 7 of them had the same swine flu mix as the virus that infected the US patients. Besser called the analysis preliminary, however, and said that CDC doesn't yet have enough information to draw conclusions. "We still don't have enough information about the extent of the spread or the illness spectrum." WHO said today that Canada's national laboratory has confirmed swine flu A/H1N1 in 18 isolates from Mexican patients, 12 of which were genetically identical to the swine flu viruses from California.

WHO and CDC both said they were sending representatives to Mexico to assist local authorities, and WHO said it has alerted its Global Alert and Response Network. Besser said that WHO will likely convene an expert panel to discuss raising the pandemic alert level from 3 (human infection with new influenza subtype with only rare human-to-human spread) to 4 (small clusters with localized human-to-human transmission). He said the experts will consider 3 factors: the novelty of the virus, disease severity, and how easily transmission of the virus is sustained. Global health officials might consider a containment strategy such as dispatching antiviral medications to affected parts of Mexico in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus, but Besser said that such a measure might not work, because there are signs that the virus has already spread from human to human over long distances. "A focused, well defined area is not something we've seen here," he said. CDC officials have said the swine flu A/H1N1 virus is susceptible to the newer antivirals oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), but not the older ones, amantadine and rimantadine. Jeff McLaughlin, a spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Relenza, told CIDRAP News that the company is watching the swine flu developments closely. Terry Hurley, a spokesman for Roche, which produces Tamiflu, said its "rapid response stockpile" is on 24-hour standby, as usual, for deployment to WHO, which has not yet requested it.

The threat from the swine flu virus serves as a reminder for individuals and businesses to think about their own level of preparedness, Besser said. "This is a time for people to be thinking about that teachable moment." So far, federal officials have not changed their travel recommendations to California, Texas, or Mexico, though they have issued an advisory about the increased health risk in certain parts of Mexico, urging travelers to take standard precautions such hand washing, staying home when sick, and using good coughing and sneezing hygiene.

byline: Lisa Schnirring

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The "swine" influenza A(H1N1) virus associated with current outbreaks of respiratory illness in the southern region of the USA and in Mexico appears to be a complex reassortant containing genome components from avian, human, and swine virus sources. Such a virus is unique and it is too early to conclude that this virus has originated in swine.

According to the CDC website (<<http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/>http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/>) swine influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza among pigs. Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans; however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of swine flu viruses has been documented. From December 2005 through February 2009, a total of 12 human infections with swine influenza were reported from 10 states in the United States. Since March 2009, a number of confirmed human cases of the new strain of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in California, Texas, and Mexico have been identified.

Whatever the origin of the current outbreak virus it is likely that the designation swine influenza virus will stick. - Mod.CP

****** [2] Strain identity Fri 24 Apr 2009 Source: CBC News [abbreviated and edited]

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/24/health-flu-mexico090424.html

Canadian lab confirms human swine flu cases in Mexico -------------------- "Today we have received results which confirm that the virus is human swine influenza," Leona Aglukkaq told a press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A handful of cases of flu-like illness in Canadian residents who recently returned from Mexico are being monitored; however, "there have been no confirmed cases of human swine influenza yet" here, said Dr David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer.

Mexico sent 51 specimens for testing to Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory on Wednesday [21 Apr 2009]. 16 positives of swine flu were found among the samples. Mexican health minister Jose Angel Cordova said on Friday that 20 people were killed in the outbreak and 1004 were infected throughout the country, prompting WHO to convene an emergency meeting on Saturday. Officials closed schools, museums and libraries in Mexico City on Friday to limit spread of the virus.

Dr Rich Besser, acting head of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said early analysis of Mexican samples of the virus showed it is very similar to those responsible for 8 American cases, one confirmed on Friday. All the US victims have recovered. Canada is working with Mexican and US health officials to confirm that the virus in both countries is linked and is in fact a new strain of influenza A H1N1 human swine virus, he added.

"This is an interesting virus. It's a brand new virus, not only to humans but to the world," said Dr Frank Plummer, scientific director of the Winnipeg lab. "About 80 per cent of the virus is highly related to a North American body [?] of swine flu that's been around for a number of years, but about 20 per cent of it comes from an Eurasian variety of swine flu 1st seen in Thailand, so it's recombined [re-assorted ?] to create something totally new. How it did that, where it did it, when it did it, I don't think we know yet."

CDC said the current strain of swine flu includes genetic material from 4 sources: North American swine influenza viruses, North American avian influenza viruses, human influenza virus, and swine influenza viruses found in Asia and Europe -- a new combination that has not been recognized anywhere in the world before. There appears to be human-to-human spread in both the US and Mexico over a wide geographic area at this point, but investigators are still checking for direct contact with swine.

WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl said the agency needs to determine whether the outbreaks constitute an international public health threat. Hartl also said 12 of 18 samples taken from victims in Mexico showed the virus had a genetic structure identical to that of the virus found in California earlier this week. But he said the agency needs more information before it changes its pandemic alert level, which currently stands at 3 on a scale of one to 6. The virus was 1st reported earlier this week as US health officials scrambled to deal with the diagnoses of 7 people with the never-before-seen strain in Texas and California. The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where 2 deaths were reported.

Hartl said health officials are dealing with 3 separate events in Mexico, with most of the cases in and around the capital, Mexico City. Most of the cases have occurred in healthy young adults, he added. "Because these cases are not happening in the very old or the very young, which is normal with seasonal influenza, this is an unusual event and a cause for heightened concern," Hartl said in an interview from WHO headquarters in Geneva. It is also rare to see such high flu activity so late in the season, he said. "The end of April, especially in a place like Mexico, you would think that we would see quite a steep decline," said Hartl.

On Thursday [23 Apr 2009], Canadian health officials issued advice warning travellers who have recently returned from Mexico to be on alert for flu-like symptoms that could be connected to the illness.

-- communicated by Steven McAuley Medical student University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand sbmcauley

****** [3] Pandemic warning Sat 25 Apr 2009 Source: MSNBC [edited]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682

Health officials prepare for swine flu "pandemic"

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A new swine flu strain that has killed as many as 68 people and sickened more than 1000 across Mexico has "pandemic potential," the WHO chief said on Saturday [25 Apr 2009], and it may be too late to contain the sudden outbreak. CDC has stepped up surveillance across the United States. "We are worried," said CDC's Dr Anne Schuchat. "We don't think we can contain the spread of this virus," said Schuchat, interim deputy director for the Science and Public Health Program. "We are likely to find it in many other places." Because cases have been detected in California, Texas, and in several sites in Mexico, officials now must work to detect infections and reduce their severity, if possible. "It's time to prepare, time to think ahead and to be prepared for some uncertainty," she told reporters in a telephone briefing on Saturday.

Two dozen new suspected cases were reported Saturday [25 Apr 2009] in Mexico City alone. Schools were closed and all public events suspended in the capital until further notice -- including more than 500 concerts and other gatherings in the metropolis of 20 million. A hot line fielded 2366 calls in its 1st hours from frightened city residents who suspected they might have the disease. Soldiers and health workers handed out masks at subway stops, and hospitals dealt with crowds of people seeking help.

WHO's director-general, Margaret Chan, said the outbreak of the never-before-seen virus is a very serious situation and has "pandemic potential". But she said it is still too early to tell if it would become a pandemic. "The situation is evolving quickly," Chan said in a telephone news conference in Geneva. "A new disease is by definition poorly understood. "This virus is a mix of human, pig, and bird strains that prompted the WHO to meet Saturday to consider declaring an international public health emergency -- a step that could lead to travel advisories, trade restrictions and border closures. Spokesman Gregory Hartl said a decision would not be made on Saturday.

Scientists have warned for years about the potential for a pandemic from viruses that mix genetic material from humans and animals. Another reason to worry is that authorities said the dead so far don't include vulnerable infants and elderly. The Spanish flu pandemic, which killed at least 40 million people worldwide in 1918-19, also 1st struck otherwise healthy young adults. This swine flu and regular flu can have similar symptoms -- mostly fever, cough, and sore throat, though some of the US victims who recovered also experienced vomiting and diarrhea. But unlike with regular flu, humans don't have natural immunity to a virus that includes animal genes -- and new vaccines can take months to bring into use.

But experts at WHO and CDC say the nature of this outbreak may make containment impossible. Already, more than 1000 people have been infected in as many as 14 of Mexico's 32 states, according to daily newspaper El Universal. Tests show 20 people have died of the swine flu, and 48 other deaths were probably due to the same strain.

CDC and Canadian health officials were studying samples sent from Mexico, and airports around the world were screening passengers from Mexico for symptoms of the new flu strain, saying they may quarantine passengers. But CDC officials dismissed the idea of trying that in the United States. They noted there had been no direct contact between the cases in the San Diego and San Antonio areas, suggesting the virus had already spread from one geographic area through other undiagnosed people. "Anything that would be about containing it right now would purely be a political move," said Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota pandemic expert.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said his government only discovered the nature of the virus late on Thursday, with the help of international laboratories. "We are doing everything necessary," he said in a brief statement. But the government had said for days that its growing flu caseload was nothing unusual, so the sudden turnaround angered many who wonder if Mexico missed an opportunity to contain the outbreak.

Across Mexico's capital, residents reacted with fatalism and confusion, anger, and mounting fear at the idea that their city may be ground zero for a global epidemic. Authorities urged people to stay home if they feel sick and to avoid shaking hands or kissing people on the cheeks.

-- communicated by Charles H Calisher, PhD Professor, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology 3195 Rampart Rd, Delivery Code 1690, Foothills Campus Fort Collins, CO 80523-1690 College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University <calisher

****** [4] Suspected outbreak in New York Fri 24 Apr 2009 Source: WCBS TV News [edited] http://wcbstv.com/health/swine.flu.nyc.2.994071.html

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Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

 

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UPDATE 1-Seventh case of swine flu confirmed in California

Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:22pm EDT

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* Woman in latest case is fully recovered

* California health officials expect more cases

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES, April 25 (Reuters) - A seventh case of the swine flu that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico was confirmed in California on Saturday, state health officials said.

The latest case was a 35-year-old woman from Imperial County who reported becoming ill on April 4, California Department of Public Health spokesman Al Lundeen told Reuters.

The woman, who was not identified, was hospitalized for the flu but had recovered fully, Lundeen said. No further details were immediately available about the woman or her condition.

She was diagnosed as part of stepped-up testing in California following the swine flu outbreak that showed signs of spreading as the World Health Organization warned it could become a global epidemic.

All seven of California's confirmed swine flu cases have been found in San Diego and Imperial counties, which share a border with Mexico.

Four of Mexico's suspected cases have been reported in Mexicali, which is on the border with California.

State health officials have not ordered any border restrictions but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has advised Californians to take precautions, including avoiding close contact with others, washing hands often and covering the nose and mouth when sneezing.

California's top health officials have said they expect to find more cases of swine flu, calling the eruption of a new strain puzzling.

"When you start looking more intensely, you are likely to find more cases," said Dr. Gil Chavez, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the California Department of Public Health and the state's chief epidemiologist.

"We are watching this very closely. It's largely a mystery. It's very unusual whenever you have as many as even six cases (of swine flu). That's very, very rare," Chavez said.

Schwarzenegger said California had requested extra flu experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was expanding lab testing and the monitoring of animals.

The state has activated its Joint Emergency Operations Center and has been in communication with officials in Mexico. (Editing by Peter Cooney)

 

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Texas Health Department closes school; bans sick reporters from news conference

April 26th, 2009 - 1:55 am ICT by admin -

Byron Steele High School in Cibolo closedAnother suspected swine flu case being investigatedOfficials urge residents of Guadalupe County to avoid public gatheringsSick reporters will not be allowed entry to a 2 p.m. news conference

TEXAS (BNO NEWS) – The Texas Department of State Health Services says it has closed the Byron Steele High School in Cibolo, effective immediately, as public health and school officials work to keep swine flu from spreading among the population. It was not clear when the school would reopen.

Earlier this week, swine flu was confirmed in two students from the Cibolo high school and a third student is now listed as a suspected case. A statement from the health department said confirmatory lab test results are pending. The first two cases have recovered since they were reported and the third is currently recovering.

“The purpose is to reduce the risk to students, staff and the community,†said Sandra Guerra who is the public health authority for Guadalupe County. She is also urging students not to be around each other while school is closed. “That would defeat the purpose,†Guerra said. The school’s extracurricular activities have also been cancelled.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is urging the school’s staff, faculty, students and their household members to avoid contact with others, especially if they have symptoms of a respiratory illness.

Additionally, the department is “strongly recommending†that all residents of Guadalupe County should not attend public gatherings for the immediate future and ask that anyone with symptoms of a respiratory illness to stay home and avoid close contact with others.

Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to those of regular or seasonal flu and include fever, fatigue, lack of appetite and coughing. Some with swine flu also have reported runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Further, health officials say that everyone should follow standard precautions to reduce the spread of swine flu. These actions include:

* Stay home when you are sick to avoid spreading illness to others.* Cough or sneeze into the crook of your elbow or a tissue and properly dispose of used tissues.* Wash hands frequently and thoroughly with soap and warm water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

Further, the Texas Health Department will be holding a news conference at 2 p.m. local time to update on the developing situation. The department said it would refuse entry to any reporters with symptoms of a respiratory illness.

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Health Officials Say 8 NYC Students Had Swine Flu

 

 

 

 

 

By Rob Stein

Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 25, 2009; 7:44 PM

New York City Health officials reported today that at least eight students at a private high school had "probable" swine flu.

About 200 of the 2,700 students attending St. Francis Preparatory High School in the Queens borough of the city missed school earlier in the week due to fever, sore throats and other flu-like symptoms, prompting school officials to notify the health department.

Investigators interviewed more than 100 students and their family members. All had mild symptoms and none were hospitalized, but some family members had developed similar symptoms, indicating their illness had spread in the family, according to Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden.

A preliminary analysis of viral samples obtained from nose and throat swabs from nine affected students found that eight tested positive for influenza A. Because none matched the known H1 and H3 subtypes of human flu, they were considered "probable cases of swine flu," Frieden said. The samples have been sent to the CDC for further analysis. Those results were expected on Sunday. If the tests come back positive, officials plan to ask that the school remain closed on Monday, Frieden said.

 

"We're concerned," Frieden said. "When we see the serious cases in Mexico, and we see it spreading fairly rapid in one school. It's a situation that has to be monitored very carefully."

The health department had sent out an alert to all doctors and hospitals throughout the city to be on the look-out for more cases, and were monitoring a citywide surveillance system for any alarming increase in respiratory illnesses, Frieden said. So far no increase had occurred, but officials were continuing to monitor the situation. Officials were also investigating a cluster of illness at a daycare center in the Bronx, he said.

"We're just going to have to take this hour by hour and day by day and see what develops as we go forward," he said.

The St. Francis students had just returned from spring break, during which time some may have traveled to Mexico, he said.

Health officials advised anyone who developed similar symptoms to stay home and seek treatment, and residents to take precautions such as washing their hands and avoiding close contact with sick people.

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Illegals Will Transport The Flu Virus EfficientlyExpect To See Martial Law If It Gets Worse

From Edgar J. Steele

4-25-9

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Jeff - Martial law if it gets worse and the WHO could, very well, be in charge.

Note the quote - "potentially prompting travel restrictions,"

"POTENTIALLY prompting travel restrictions" ?? The travel restrictions should be in place and should have been in place Wednesday.

It is probably way too late to stop the virus from entering and spreading...it's here. It is also ALL OVER THE US being spread through the illegal alien 'community'. We need to stop an influx of illegals to prevent sick ones from flooding our health care system and crushing our health care infrastructure before American citizens even have a chance to use it. They will also put our health care professionals and first responders at grave risk...or even wipe most of it out.

I am pretty darn sure this virus is likely already in Chicago, DC, NY State, Florida and in much of the suburbs, cities and rural areas which house illegals. We cannot afford to care for a mass of people from Mexico. I have NO DOUBT that if the US had been hit first, Mexico would have set up powerful military border patrols to stop US citizens from crossing into Mexico. Travel restrictions would have been slammed intoi place in a flash and Americans might even be shot on sight should they try to enter Mexico.

IF this virus doesn't fizzle out, we could be faced with no supplies, no food, no health care workers, police and fire, etc in a very short period of time. When you reach for protective masks and gloves, or gowns, they won't be there...no supplies.

Time to close the flood gates NOW. There won't be enough resources for Americans and we cannot stretch what we don't have.

Patty

Swine Flu May Be Named Event of 'International Concern' By WHO

By Jason Gale

4-25-9

(Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization is set to declare the deadly swine flu virus outbreak in Mexico and the U.S. a global concern, potentially prompting travel restrictions, said a person familiar with the matter.

An emergency committee of the WHO in Geneva will declare the outbreak "a public health event of international concern" in a 4 p.m. teleconference today, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting is confidential. In response, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan may raise the level of pandemic alert, which could lead to travel restrictions aimed at curbing the disease's spread.

"These levels of pandemic alert are all signals for action," said Malik Peiris, a professor of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, who has studied influenza viruses for more than a decade. "Raising the level of alertness to influenza, especially in returning travelers, would be a relevant thing to do."

Human-to-human spread of the previously unseen H1N1 swine influenza in Mexico and the U.S. is heightening concern that the virus may spark a pandemic. At least 68 people have died and more than 1,000 have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms in the Mexico City region in the past month, Jose Cordova, Mexico's Health Minister, told reporters yesterday. The government has shut schools and distributed face masks.

Sari Setiogi, a WHO spokeswoman in Geneva, declined to comment on the agency's response, saying it will depend on the outcome of today's meeting.

Closing Theaters Mexico's Social Security Institute shut all of the theaters and cultural centers it operates nationwide to avoid spreading the flu strain -- reminiscent of actions implemented during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Asia. Travel curbs imposed there damaged economies throughout the region, where that virus circulated most widely.

In Singapore, where 33 infected people died, gross domestic product shrank 11.4 percent in the second quarter of 2003 because of the severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Swine flu was confirmed in 20 of the deaths so far in Mexico. Of 14 tissue samples tested from Mexico, half were a genetic match with the swine flu reported in eight people in California and Texas, the Atlanta-based <http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swine/>Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said.

"We do not know whether this swine flu virus or some other influenza virus will lead to the next pandemic," Richard Besser, the CDC's acting director, told reporters yesterday on a teleconference. "Scientists around the world continue to monitor the virus and take its threat seriously."

Pandemic Threat

The new influenza strain, a conglomeration of genes from swine, bird and human viruses, poses the biggest threat of a large-scale flu pandemic since the emergence of the H5N1 strain that has killed millions of birds and hundreds of people, said William Schaffner, an influenza expert at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.

"It re-combined to create something totally new," David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health minister, told reporters yesterday. "How, when, or where it did that I don't think we know. What it will lead to is impossible to predict."

WHO's alert level is at level 3, meaning there is no, or very limited, human-to-human transmission of a potential pandemic virus. Officials at the agency have said the global spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus since 2003 has put the world closer to another influenza pandemic than at any time since 1968, when the last of the previous century's three pandemics occurred.

Alert System

WHO uses a six-step alert system to tell the world what preparations to take in response to a pandemic. Flu can spread quickly when a new strain emerges because no one has natural immunity and a vaccine takes months to develop. The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which killed as many as 50 million people, began when an avian flu virus jumped to people, doctors said.

(JEFF, THE SPANISH FLU VIRUS JUMPED FROM AVIAN TO PIGS AND THEN TO PEOPLE. IT DID NOT SIMPLY JUMP FROM BIRDS TO HUMANS -- PIGS WERE A MOST IMPORTANT PART. Patty)

Teams of disease investigators have been sent to California and Texas to trace how the malady has spread, and the U.S. offered to send scientists to Mexico, said the CDC's Besser. U.S. hospitals are being asked to collect samples from patients with flu-like symptoms, said Schaffner, chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt, in a telephone interview yesterday.

'Sense of Urgency'

"They are asking us who work in hospitals to go to our emergency rooms and our pediatric wards to gather specimens and start testing them," Schaffner said. "This has a sense of urgency about it."

Mexico's government has closed schools, museums, movie theaters and libraries in Mexico City and surrounding areas until further notice, according to an e-mail from the National Arts and Culture Council. It's also handing out free facemasks and extending the deadline for filing taxes until May 31, Cordova said. A million doses of antiviral medicine are available for distribution, he said.

Twenty-four cases, including three deaths, have been reported in San Luis Potosi, in central Mexico, and four cases have been found in Mexicali near the border with the U.S., according to the WHO.

Three main human flu strains -- H3N2, H1N1 and type-B -- circulate and cause 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year in seasonal epidemics, according to the World Health Organization. Pandemics occur when a novel influenza A-type virus, to which almost no one has natural immunity, emerges and begins spreading.

To contact the reporter on this story: Jason Gale in Singapore at j.gale

Last Updated: April 25, 2009 08:06 EDT

Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

 

 

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Mex City Hospital Email - Flu WORSE Than SaidSan Diego County - 'Stay Home If You Feel Sick'From Edgar J. Steele

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Ok, folks - Now this is beginning to get serious. The death level in Mexico has ratcheted to over 80, per two-day-old news, and I've just received a report of an outbreak in New York (not in the article below, which is noteworthy for discussing the various alert levels). This would be a good time to go to the store and stock up for a self-quarantine in your home of up to a month or so.

If this blossoms beyond what already has occurred in California, Texas and, now, New York, I'm pulling up my own drawbridge for the duration.

If I lived in California or any state bordering Mexico (or metro NY, from which there now is an unsubstantiated outbreak report), I already would be back from the store with my supplies and would have closed the front door for the duration.

For what it's worth: An hour ago, I received an email purporting to be from a doctor at a Mexico City hospital, who claimed that things there are much worse than being reported, with thousands already infected.

Maybe this will blow over by early next week or maybe we will see it mushroom.

Whether this is the pandemic I have forecast for many years (read my book) or not, rest assured that it is coming. If not now, then later this year or next year. Mark my words well. I have been wrong about very little in what I have forecast for America in recent years, a forecast made before the good times peaked, even. What should concern you, though, is not about what I have been right so far, but what I have forecast for the coming months and years.

The timing is right for an engineered disease pandemic just like what Dick Cheney repeatedly promised for us, not to mention a world war. Mexico is on the verge of collapsing into a 5-drug-cartel ruling junta "government" and the American dollar is on its very last legs. There is an anti-government movement spreading across America (witness today's "Audit the Fed" demonstrations).

Precious metals, especially silver stocks (especially CDE, which I recently recommended at about .60 and which now is over double that), surged dramatically on Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow night's overseas markets should foreshadow what will happen on Wall Street Monday morning and that likely will tell us all we need to know about just how serious this might become.

You may feel that ignoring market dynamics is ok because you have no investments, but remember that economics and general society are just two sides of the same coin, with economics being the far easier read.

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Mexico Takes Powers to Isolate Cases of Swine Flu

 

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A soldier handed out face masks in Mexico City on Saturday. Many people stayed indoors to avoid contact with the flu virus.

 

By MARC LACEY and ELISABETH MALKIN

Published: April 25, 2009

MEXICO CITY — This sprawling capital was on edge Saturday as jittery residents ventured out wearing surgical masks and President Felipe Calderón published an order that would give his government emergency powers to address a deadly flu outbreak, including isolating those who have contracted the virus, inspecting the homes of affected people and ordering the cancellation of public events.

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White-coated health care workers fanned out across the international airport here to look for ailing passengers, and thousands of callers fearful they might have contracted the rare swine flu flooded government health hot lines. Health officials also began notifying restaurants, bars and nightclubs throughout the city that they should close.

Of those Mexicans who did go out in public, many took the advice of the authorities and donned the masks, which are known here as tapabocas, or cover-your-mouths, and were being handed out by soldiers and health workers at subway stops and on street corners.

“My government will not delay one minute to take all the necessary measures to deal with this epidemic,†Mr. Calderón said in Oaxaca State during the opening of a new hospital, which he said will set aside an area for anyone who might be affected by the new swine flu strain that has already killed as many as 81 people in Mexico and sickened more than 1,300 others.

Mr. Calderón pointed out that he and the other officials who attended the ceremony intentionally did not greet each other with handshakes or kisses on the cheek, which health officials have urged Mexicans to avoid.

At a news conference Saturday night to address the crisis, Mexico’s health minister, José Ãngel Córdova, said 20 of the 81 reported deaths were confirmed to have been caused by swine flu, while the rest are being studied. Most of the cases of illness were reported in the center of the country, but there were other cases in pockets to the north and south.

The government also announced at the news conference that schools in and around the capital that serve millions of students would remain closed until May 6.

With 20 million people packed together tight, Mexico City typically bursts forth on the weekends into parks, playgrounds, cultural centers and sidewalk cafes. But things were quieter than usual on Saturday.

The government encouraged people to stay at home by canceling concerts, closing museums and banning spectators from two big soccer matches on Sunday that will be played in front of television cameras, but no live crowd.

At street corners on Saturday, even many of the jugglers, dancers and musicians who eke out a living collecting spare change when the traffic lights turn red were wearing bright blue surgical masks.

The newspaper Reforma reported that President Obama, who recently visited Mexico, was escorted around Mexico City’s national anthropology museum on April 16 by Felipe Solis, an archaeologist who died the next day from flu-like symptoms. But Dr. Córdova said that it does not appear that Mr. Solis died of influenza.

White House officials said Saturday that they were aware of the news report in Mexico and that there was no reason to be concerned about the president’s health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Saturday that it had sent a team of experts to Mexico to assist with the investigation of the outbreak, which has already been reported in Texas and California and possibly in New York, raising fears that it could spread into a global pandemic.

The possible New York cases were reported at a Queens high school, where eight students tested positive for a type of influenza that health officials suspect could be the new swine flu. Some of the school’s students had traveled to Mexico recently.

Still, the World Health Organization, which held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the outbreak, chose not to raise the level of global pandemic flu alert, which has been at a Level 3 because of the avian flu.

Epidemiologists want to know exactly when the first cases occurred in Mexico. Mexican health officials said they first noticed a huge spike in flu cases in late March. In mid-April, they began noticing that otherwise healthy people were dying from the virus. But it was only on Thursday night that officials first sounded an alarm to the population by closing schools, after United States health officials announced a possible swine flu outbreak.

By issuing the emergency decree Saturday, Mr. Calderón may have been trying to head off criticism that his government had been too slow to act. He had earlier called in the army to distribute four million masks throughout the capital and its surrounding suburbs.

Lt. Raymundo Morales Merla, who stood outside a military transport truck parked outside a downtown subway station on Saturday, led a group of 27 soldiers who had arrived at 7 a.m. to hand out as many masks as they could.

The scene at the airport was alarming, with doctors stationed at the entrances to answer questions and to keep an eye out for obviously sick people. Regular public address announcements in English and Spanish warned travelers that anyone exhibiting any symptoms should cancel their flight and immediately seek medical attention.

Even Sunday Mass will probably be affected. The Roman Catholic Church gave worshipers the option to listen to Masses on the radio and told priests who decided to hold services to be brief and put Communion wafers in worshipers’ hands instead of their mouths.

Axel de la Macorra, 46, a physics professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico, said he became worried when he learned recently that a 31-year-man who played at a tennis club he once belonged to had suddenly died. “He got sick at the beginning of April and two weeks later, he was dead,†said Mr. de la Macorra, who was weighing whether to attend a First Communion with 200 guests on Saturday.

“My mother told me to wear it so I did,†said Noel Ledezma, 29, who had his mask pulled down so he could sip a coffee and eat a muffin as he walked to work. “Who knows who will be next.â€

Sarahe Gomez, who was selling jewelry at a mall in the upscale Polanco neighborhood, spoke through a mask to the few customers who visited her kiosk. “I’m in the middle of all these people and one of them could have it,†she said. “The virus could be anywhere. It could be right here.â€

She then took a half step back.

“This is no joke,†said Servando Peneda, 42, a lawyer who ventured out to pay a bill, but left his two sons home. “There’s 20 million of us in this city and I’d say half of us have these masks on today. I know all of us will die one day, but I want to last out the week.â€

Antonio Betancourt contributed reporting from Mexico City, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg from Washington.

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