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  Date / Time: 4/26/2009 7:28 AM UTC

  Swine Flu Update
  

  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 Date: 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

   

  -- communicated by: ProMED-mail

  promed@promedmail.org

   

  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 Date: 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@gmail.com

   

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

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

   

   

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