Thread: Swine/Avian/Human Flu Outbreak In Mexico

I don't want to panic anyone but we should all be informed. I copied and pasted several pieces of information. Truth is, after the past several months reading reports about mass empty coffins in the US, and missing viles of viruses, I have been anticipating something like this. Taking vaccinations is an individual choice but I personally would not want to do it.


* WHO ready with rapid containment measures including drugs

* Says health authorities in 2 countries are well equipped

* Sees no need to issue travel advisories at this point

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it was prepared with rapid containment measures including antivirals if needed to combat the swine flu outbreaks in Mexico and the United States.
The Geneva-based agency has been stockpiling doses of Roche AG's Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection.

But health authorities in the two North American countries have the resources required already in place, including Tamiflu, and are "well equipped," according to the WHO.

"WHO is prepared with rapid containment measures should it be necessary to be deployed," WHO spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi told Reuters.
The United Nations agency saw no need at this point to issue travel advisories warning travelers not to go to parts of Mexico or the United States. "However, the situation may change depending on what the situation in the field is," Bhatiasevi said.

The WHO will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee on international health regulations, probably on Saturday afternoon, she added.

WHO director-general Margaret Chan was flying back to Geneva overnight from Washington, D.C., for the emergency discussions which would link public health authorities and experts in various parts of world in a virtual meeting, she said.

The emergency committee could make recommendations including whether to change the pandemic alert level, but it would be up to Chan and the WHO whether to do so, she added.

Suspicions that the fatal outbreaks of flu in Mexico were not of the normal seasonal influenza arose because most cases were in healthy young adults, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said.

"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 with Canadian broadcaster CBC.


http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNe ... 22&sp=true


Here is more from Daily Paul:

The following quote comes from the article below. Read the article. Ask yourself , how can we have a stockpile of vaccine so quickly????

It first looked mostly like a swine virus but closer analysis showed it is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC. [nN24420522]. "We do not have enough information to fully assess the health threat posed by this new swine flu virus," Besser said.
We're frightened because they say it's not exactly flu, it's another kind of virus and we're not vaccinated," said Angeles Rivera, 34, a federal government worker who fetched her son from a public kindergarten that was closing.

The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It contains DNA from avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses, the CDC has said. [nN23355101] The Geneva-based U.N. agency WHO said it was in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events. The CDC said it will issue daily updates at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/sw....

http://www.alertnet.org/t...

WHO ready with antivirals to combat swine flu
How can this article be correct if the strain is.....a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC
http://www.reuters.com/ar...

Mexico City launches huge vaccination campaign against swine flu
How odd, how can you vaccinate againt ..... you guessed it.... a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC
http://www.breitbart.com/...


"The A (H1N1) flu strain they had was quite unusual, said Dr. Nancy Cox, the chief of the agency’s flu division. It contained gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains as well as one from Eurasian swine."

In other words, Created in a lab.
"The unusual strain this year was noticed, Dr. Schuchat said, only because the agency was trying out a new diagnostic test at a Navy laboratory and doing more testing than usual through a new Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project along the Mexican border."

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13295: REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Excerpt:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases..........
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But look at the AMENDMENT to this Executive Order which came out in 2005:
Executive Order: Amendment to E.O. 13295 Relating to Certain Influenza Viruses and Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
Excerpt:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003, section 1 of such order is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
"(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.".

39 States passed the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
On April 24th, 2009 America Loves R... says:
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While we were asleep, most states have passed this draconian legislation.
Can you say "FORCED VACCINATION" ?????
Check out some of the goodies:
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
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Section 604 Isolation and quarantine.
(a) Authorization. During the public health emergency, the public health authority may isolate (consistent with the definition of “isolationâ€

I swear.....if it doesn't come naturally, lets not let the worried public let that worry go to waste......

As a counter balance to my previous post, I found this from an infowars forum that we should all consider as well:


WISDOM UPDATE FOR YOUR MIND:

Please be mentally aware of the mass hypnosis methods used by government by implementing “fearâ€

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Venture capital firm set to reap rewards on swine flu
Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:11pm BST
By Alexander Haislip

LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Reuters) - The swine flu outbreak is likely to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Thomson Reuters Private Equity Week reported on Friday.

Shares of the two public companies in the firm's portfolio of eight Pandemic and Bio Defense companies -- BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Novavax (NVAX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) -- jumped Friday on news that the swine flu killed a reported 60 people in Mexico and has infected people in the United States.

The World Health Organization said the virus appears to be susceptible to Roche's (ROG.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) flu drug Tamiflu, also known as oseltamivir, but not to older flu drugs such as amantadine.

Shares of Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG closed up 3.48 percent after falling sharply earlier in the week on a cancer drug disappointment, while shares of U.S. biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O: Quote, Profile, Research), which gets royalties from Roche on Tamiflu sales, slipped 10 cents to $45.80 on Friday.

But BioCryst, a maker of drugs that block key enzymes in viral diseases, jumped more than 26 percent on Friday to $2.21 per share. Viral vaccine maker Novavax rose more than 75 percent to $1.42 per share.

BioCryst CEO John Stonehouse said his company does not anticipate the use of its technology in treating this episode of swine flu.

"We're in clinical trials right now and not on the market," Stonehouse said.

Still, the companies will have to go even higher for Kleiner Perkins to make its investment back. Both BioCryst and Novavax experienced long drops from price peaks in 2006, when reports of avian flu dominated headlines.

BioCryst is down nearly 90 percent from its 2006 high of $20.75 per share and Novavax is down more than 85 percent from a high of $7.98 per share.

Kleiner Perkins invested $30 million in BioCryst in December 2005 alongside Fort Worth, Texas-based buyout firm TPG. The two firms invested again in August 2007, picking up $65 million worth of shares and warrants. The investors bought shares in BioCryst at $13.46 and then $7.80.

Kleiner Perkins put $20 million in Novavax in February 2006 alongside Palo Alto, Calif.-based Prospect Venture Partners. The two firms picked up the shares at $4.35.

Novavax can produce a vaccine from an emergent strain of flu virus in 12 weeks, according to CEO Rahul Singhvi. The company has contacted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer help and is trying to contact the Ministry of Health in Mexico, Singhvi said.

The company uses genetic information and "recombinant, virus-like particle technology" to rapidly engineer a vaccine. Its technology has been proven to work in humans during Phase II trials, Singhvi said, and it might be used in the case of an emergency.

"There is an emergency authorization avenue that is available that would allow us to use the vaccine in an emergency without further testing," said Singhvi.

Kleiner Perkins typically only invests in early stage start-up technologies. It is best known for its investments in Netscape, Amazon.com (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research), Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Genentech (ROG.VX: Quote, Profile, Research).

The Menlo Park, California-based VC firm launched a $200 million Pandemic Bio Defense fund in 2006 to invest in technology companies working on drugs, diagnostics and inoculations against flu-like diseases.

"We will invest to accelerate innovation, and we're in a hurry," Investor John Doerr said at the time. "We hope even a mild pandemic never recurs."

Investors at Kleiner Perkins were not immediately available for comment.

The firm's other Pandemic Bio Defense investments include: * San Francisco-based Anza Therapeutics, which is working on therapeutic vaccines for treating certain types of cancer and hepatitis C. * Fremont, Calif.-based Breathe Technologies, which is working on lightweight respiratory ventilator systems. * Emeryville, Calif.-based HX Diagnostics, which is working to make diagnostic tools for seasonal and emerging diseases. * Pleasanton, Calif.-based Juvaris BioTherapeutics Inc., which is working on vaccines and immunotherapeutics to treat infectious disease and cancer. * San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics, which is developing drugs to fight resistant-strains of bacteria. * Marlborough, Mass.-based Xcellerex Inc., which has developed tools and manufacturing processes to speed the deployment of new vaccines.


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http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmen ... 6420090424

I heard on the radio that there were 60 deaths in Mexico and 1,000 reported cases. That being said, you know it is more far reaching than that. That pretty much tells you where the American cases came from.

The activation of the National Guard to prevent the spread of disease. Wow, what a good idea.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

I heard on the radio that there were 60 deaths in Mexico and 1,000 reported cases. That being said, you know it is more far reaching than that. That pretty much tells you where the American cases came from.

The activation of the National Guard to prevent the spread of disease. Wow, what a good idea.

Dixie

And those are the ones they know about. There may have been many illnesses and deaths that were not reported as being related.

Third possible swine flu outbreak in Mexico -- WHO

Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:35pm BST Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+] GENEVA (Reuters) - Mexico has reported a third possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexicali, near the U.S. border, with four suspect cases and no deaths to date, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

The WHO also said that the viruses in the outbreaks in Mexico and the United States had not been detected in pigs or humans before but were proving sensitive to Tamiflu. Known generically as oseltamivir, the pill by Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding can both treat flu and prevent infection.

"Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern," the Geneva-based agency said in a statement.

(For the WHO statement go to: here )
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/index.html

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Jonathan Lynn)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews ... BW20090424

Originally Posted by redpony353

Originally Posted by Dixie

I heard on the radio that there were 60 deaths in Mexico and 1,000 reported cases. That being said, you know it is more far reaching than that. That pretty much tells you where the American cases came from.

The activation of the National Guard to prevent the spread of disease. Wow, what a good idea.

Dixie

And those are the ones they know about. There may have been many illnesses and deaths that were not reported as being related.

Right! American catches it in 2 children and Mexico has over 60 people dead and over a thousand infecterd before they even acknowledge it.

Mexico is not our friend.

All of these reports are coming out of Europe. Why not Mexico?

Now can we have the National Guard called up to Quarantine the border?

Dixie