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    The return of H1N1 Mexican Swine Flu

    The return of H1N1

    Posted: Dec 18, 2013 7:41 PM PST
    Updated: Dec 18, 2013 7:42 PM PST
    By Kristine Galvan, Reporter - bio


    HOUSTON (FOX 26) -As word of a mysterious illness that killed four people spread through Montgomery County, so did questions from residents.

    "We don't know what's going on," one woman said. " It's scary."


    Health experts announced the four deaths Tuesday, along with the fact four others had survived. None of the eight had initially tested positive for the flu, until now.


    "One was positive for H1N1," said Dr. Mark Escott, Montgomery County Medical Director. "We haven't identified any connection between the patients."


    H1N1 is also known as the 'swine flu.' The strain can sometimes go undetected on the standard Rapid test doctors use to determine flu.


    After the deaths, a more comprehensive flu test was conducted on each of the surviving four patients.


    According to the Montgomery County Hospital District's Facebook page, one tested positive for H1N1.


    Two tested negative for all flu viruses.


    And a fourth test is pending.


    Doctors plan to retest all four survivors and send the information to the state health department and the Center for Disease Control.


    This *has* been a very active flu season both nationally and regionally.

    As a result of what happened in Montgomery County, Harris County health administrators are asking doctors to consider changing the way they handled suspected cases.


    Rita Obey is a spokesperson for Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services.


    "We're asking doctors to consider running a PCR test because it provides more comprehensive testing which will help us better identify the cause of the patient's illness," Obey said.


    One of the patients who died worked at the Golden Corral restaurant in Conroe. His manager said the restaurant has a long-standing policy that forces employees to stay home when sick, which the employee did, when he first developed a cough.


    While probably no consolation to the employee's family and friends, it may be to others concerned about the spread of this deadly disease.


    "I got kids," one man said. "That's my concern. My little boys."


    This year's flu vaccine protects against the H1N1 strain, but doctors don't think any of the eight Montgomery County patients got a flu shot.

    Dr. Escott recommends, you do.

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    1. Health officials: At least 7 swine-flu deathsnow reported in Bay Area, Santa Cruz

      San Jose Mercury News ‎- by Erin Ivie ‎- 3 hours ago
      And of the 10 flu deaths reported so far this season between six Bay Area counties and Santa Cruz County, seven are confirmed H1N1 cases, officials said. ... flu-related hospitalizations and deathsshould motivate us to take ...

    1. Deadly H1N1 Spreading Across U.S.

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    2. Influenza News Update 2014: H1N1 Cases Increasing Rapidly in Southern US

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    See realtime coverage

    Coachella Valley man who died tested positive for swine flu


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    A 30-year-old Coachella Valley man who died at a hospital this week tested positive for the H1N1 virus, according to the Riverside County Health Department.
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    Almost 50% of people hospitalized for the flu are obese

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    Nearly half of all adults hospitalized nationwide for flu so far this season have been obese, much higher than in other recent flu seasons, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . .
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    Number of flu deaths this early in the season is unusual

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    (01-10) 14:55 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- This year's flu season is off to an early and aggressive start with more than two dozen deaths reported statewide so far, including nine in the Bay Area, most of them due to a strain of influenza that has a penchant for ...
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    Make sure you take your hand sanitizer to Walmart. It seems that the outbreaks correspond with areas of high illegal immigration. JMO



    by Michel Chossudovsky
    May 4, 2009
    from GlobalResearch Website
    The WHO (World Health Organization) announced on May 1st that it will be dropping the designation of "swine flu".
    The flu will henceforth be designated A-H1N1, to be known more broadly as "the Mexican Flu", intimating that the disease originated in Mexico through human to human transmission.
    Swine influenza refers to "strains of influenza virus, that usually infect pigs". The terminology, therefore, is important, because if the pandemic is labeled "Mexican flu", the presumption is that Mexicans, namely humans, are the source of the disease.

    The term "Swine Flu', on the contrary, suggests that the pigs, at least initially, transmit the virus to humans, and, therefore, the issue of animal health must also be addressed.

    The news reports have largely focused on the transmission from humans to humans.
    They have failed to address the abysmal environmental and health conditions affecting the hog population in factory farms, which are central to an understanding of two fundamental processes:

    1. the proliferation of the disease within the hog factory farms.
    2. the process of transmission of the virus from pigs to humans.
    The swine flu can be transmitted from pigs to humans under very specific circumstances, invariably to people working in hog farms who are exposed on a daily basis to the pigs.
    Scientists are unequivocal:
    "People who work with pigs, especially people with intense exposures, are at risk of catching swine flu."
    Swine influenza is an acute, highly contagious, respiratory disease that results from infection with type A influenza virus.
    Field isolates of variable virulence exist, and clinical manifestation may be determined by secondary organisms. Pigs are the principal hosts of classic swine influenza virus.
    Human infections have been reported, but porcine strains of influenza A do not appear to easily spread in the human population... The disease in swine occurs commonly in the Midwestern USA - and occasionally in other states - Mexico, Canada, South America, Europe - including the UK, Sweden, and Italy - Kenya, China, Japan, Taiwan, and other parts of eastern Asia.(The Merck Veterinarian Manual)


    Canadian Pigs Infected by Mexicans

    The media has the distinct ability of turning realities upside down. Canada's print media, radio and network TV, in chorus, point to a Mexican worker on a hog farm in Alberta, identified as being responsible for having infected 220 pigs out of a herd of 2200 in an unnamed central Alberta hog factory farm.
    "The bans came quickly after authorities revealed Saturday that a central Alberta pig farm is quarantined under suspicion that a farm worker returning from Mexico spread the “swine flu” to hogs."(Calgary Herald, May 4, 2009, emphasis added)
    Some ten percent of the herd is said to be "recovering", according to federal officials.
    A quarantine has been placed on the farm.
    "Public-health officials said yesterday they were watching closely for movement of the swine-flu virus between people and pigs after a Canadian herd became infected, but took pains to counter a growing fear around the world of pork products.

    As a quarantine was imposed on an unnamed Alberta hog farm where 220 of the herd contracted the novel flu"
    (National Post, May 4, 2009, emphasis added)
    "Pig flu" is not a "novel" phenomenon as suggested by the media, neither is the H1N1 strain. Known and documented pigs are the original source of transmission: from pigs to humans and from humans to humans.

    The official story, however, is that the Canadian pigs in the province of Alberta had been infected with swine flu by a Mexican farm worker, namely human to pig transmission. Conversely, these same officials deny the transmission from pigs to humans.
    The official reports are unequivocal:
    Canadian pigs could not have infected people working in the hog factory including the Mexican farm worker: "It was the first time the Canadian Food Inspection Agency had reported a case of the virus being transmitted from a human to a pig in Canada, although this has been known to happen elsewhere.

    The agency said the infected herd was quarantined pending more testing "but that the chances the pigs could transfer the virus to humans was remote."
    (Reuters, May 2, 2009)
    Dr. Brian Evans, a veterinarian with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), stated that,
    "it's common to see influenza in pigs and human transmission to pigs is known to occur."

    Dead Pigs from Hog Factory Farms
    In Mexico, which was identified by the WHO as the original source of the virus, a high incidence of swine flu was recorded in La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State.
    "Sources characterized the event as a ‘strange’ outbreak of acute respiratory infection, which led to bronchial pneumonia in some pediatric cases. According to a local resident, symptoms included fever, severe cough, and large amounts of phlegm. Health officials recorded 400 cases that sought medical treatment in the last week in La Gloria, which has a population of 3,000; officials indicated that 60% of the town’s population (approximately 1,800 cases) has been affected. No precise timeframe was provided, but sources reported that a local official had been seeking health assistance for the town since February."(quoted in F. William Engdahl, Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms, Global Research, April 2009)
    There are indications that the hog factory farms in Mexico contributed to the initial outbreak of swine flu. La Gloria is a company town, which houses pig farms and surrounding toxic hog manures.

    • Granjas Carroll de Mexico (GCM) is among the world's largest hog factories, producing almost one million factory hogs per annum.(Ibid)
    • GCM is a joint venture operation owned 50% by the world’s largest pig producing industrial company, Smithfield Foods of Virginia.(Ibid)
    Smithfield Foods (SFD) is the world's largest hog producer and slaughterhouse. With over 14 million hogs per annum, the Mexican plant of La Gloria represents over 7 % of its Worldwide production.

    Who is Infecting Whom?

    The Alberta incident where a Mexican farm worker allegedly infected 220 pigs, out of a herd of 2200 (exactly ten percent, which suggests an approximation rather than a precise estimate), is crucial to the understanding of the transmission process.

    The historical evidence suggests that transmission has, despite precautions, occurred from pigs to humans in giant hog factories.

    There is reason to believe that hog factories in North America could potentially be the source of transmission. In the US since 2005, 12 reported cases of swine flu among humans were recorded, all of which were related to direct contact or proximity to pigs, according the the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). These figures do not included unreported cases.

    What is the underlying causality.
    The fundamental question with regard to Alberta and other hog producing regions in North America is:

    • Who is infecting whom?
    • Did a farm worker returning from Mexico infect the pigs?
    • Or did the Canadian pigs, confined to an unsanitary, polluted and confined environment, transmit the disease, initially within the 2200 herd, which then led to the infection of humans, namely people working in the hog factory in proximity of the pigs?
    If this is the case, the origins and causes of the pandemic are dramatically different to those presented by the WHO and the Obama Administration. We would no longer be dealing with the "Mexican Flu", transmitted from Mexico, but with a disease which originates in North America's hog factory farms.

    One would at least expect in an investigation that all the facts and causalities underlying the transmission of the virus be carefully examined.
    The name of the farm in central Alberta has not been released. No press interview or reports have been conducted at the farm on location. The identity of the Mexican worker who allegedly infected the pigs has not been made public.
    An aura of secrecy prevails:
    From the available information, the official story that the pigs were infected by a farm worker, who contracted the swine flu in Mexico cannot be corroborated.
    In recent developments, six more infections were reported in Alberta (Total 24, May 4, 2009).
    A young Alberta girl has been hospitalized "with a serious case of human swine flu":
    "Alberta Health announced Monday an Edmonton girl is in stable condition in hospital after contracting the disease, although it is not clear where she picked it up since she wasn't traveling."
    http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ci...nfluenza13.htm

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