H5N1 is of no concern, it is a hoax. It is just another tool of fear this administration is using. I'd be more worried about the fact? that H1N1 is being shipped to strategic locations all over the U.S. To be released sometime in the next 2 years, thereby creating a reason for the emperor to proclaim a state of emergency for an indefinite amount of time...

I find it interesting that so many people, myself included, fully believe the Bush adminitration will do ANYTHING necessary to maintain power. I honestly hope we are all wrong, but I keep asking myself where do "we the people" draw the line in the sand on these folks and what do we do once they've crossed it again, then we draw the next line which is crossed again, and again? I have concluded that most Americans are quite content in their mental slavery and won't even notice or care as long as their daily routine isn't inconvenienced too much.

A relevant line from the graphic novel turned movie V for Vendetta provides hope: "people shouldn't fear their governments, governments should fear their people." We'll see if "the people" can live up to their civic duty and remove these goons in the next election...if it's not rigged.

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Looks like something big might be happening just south of the US border. Cases already confirmed in US and Canada as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/health/24rounds.html

Yeah, does not sound like "the big one" but a novel little bug none the less.



http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/24/swine.flu/

Oh, and bets on what the red-neck, "it's all the illegal aliens fault" freaks are going to do with this story?

Having a hard science degree, the news of this new flu virus seems a bit incredible to me. This flu virus, which has just popped up in Mexico and the USA, evidently has the genes of three different types of flu from three different regions around the world. The chances of one virus being built of parts from other viruses that are scattered around the world are slim to none, in my opinion. The geographical obstacles and mutation frequency required make statistical likelihood of this happening naturally very, very small, IMO.



http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23355101.htm

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... CQ20090424

Bird flu in Egypt.

Swine flu in Mexico, moving into the US.

Could we be seeing the start of a pandemic.

My wife is a school RN, and she has been getting reports from the Gov. on being prepared for a flu pandemic.

Report says you should have at least a months supply of food and water at home if TSHTF.

Is this that one that looks genetically engineered?

An update from Reuters:

WHO concerned at new swine flu in U.S.
Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:57am BST

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern on Friday at a confirmed outbreak of swine flu in the United States and what it called more than 800 human "influenza-like" cases in Mexico, including about 60 deaths.

The United Nations agency said it had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events -- but could not say whether it was considering issuing a travel advisory.

U.S. public health officials said on Thursday that seven people had been diagnosed with a new kind of swine flu in California and Texas, while Mexican authorities were due to announce test results later on Friday, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said in Geneva.

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An update from Reuters:

WHO concerned at new swine flu in U.S.
Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:57am BST

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern on Friday at a confirmed outbreak of swine flu in the United States and what it called more than 800 human "influenza-like" cases in Mexico, including about 60 deaths.

The United Nations agency said it had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events -- but could not say whether it was considering issuing a travel advisory.

U.S. public health officials said on Thursday that seven people had been diagnosed with a new kind of swine flu in California and Texas, while Mexican authorities were due to announce test results later on Friday, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said in Geneva.

"We are in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities," Hartl told Reuters.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the virus was a never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans. All 7 American patients had recovered.

WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said Mexican authorities had noticed unusual activity at the end of the flu season in March and April.

"To date there have been some 800 suspected cases with flu-like illness, with 57 deaths in the Mexico City area.

"Similar cases have since been found in San Luis Potosi in central Mexico. The number of suspected cases is 24 suspected cases and 3 deaths," she told a news briefing.

Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordoba said that it was cancelling classes for millions of children in the heart of the country on Friday after influenza killed around 20 people in recent weeks. Mexico's flu season had extended for longer this year.

Reuters

Comment: 800 suspected cases and 57 deaths = 7.1% and that with appropriate medical care before the hospitals are overrun and sick people told to stay home and cope as best they can.

Population control?

US 'very concerned' about swine flu outbreak

Apr 24 08:32 AM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an unprecedented multi-strain swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States.

"It's very obvious that we are very concerned. We've stood up emergency operation centers," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesman Dave Daigle told AFP.

One major source of concern was that the virus included strains from different types of flu.

"This is the first time that we've seen an avian strain, two swine strains and a human strain," said Daigle, adding that the virus had influenza strains from European and Asian swine, but not from North American swine.

In 11 of 12 reported human cases of swine influenza (H1N1) virus infection in the United States from December 2005 to February 2009, the CDC has documented direct or indirect contact with swine.

But the seven known cases of the previously undetected strain in the United States -- five from California and two from Texas -- did not have contact with pigs. The seven people infected have all recovered from the flu.

"We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human," the CDC said on its website. "However, at this time, we have not determined how easily the virus spreads between people."

It's not about mutation. Virusses don't have sex, but they exchange genetic material with other virusses. So it's quite common for virusses to change their genetic make-up by combining different parts from different versions of the same virus.
The 'from different parts of the world' is also confusing. Most flu virusses originate from Asia, because people there live close to each other and their animals. Perfect for virusses to meet each other and exchange genetic material. But 'from different parts of the world' does not mean they are not common elsewhere either.

Is this virus more like Frankenstein, or Golem?

At peakoil, they are all geneticly engineered, created by Republican/Democrats, or jew/muslim, or some big world powers. If you don't believe this you are an idiot, or the enemy. If you do believe it then someone else believes you are the source.

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