Swine flu now a pandemic: official
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- The outbreak of swine flu has now been officially designated a pandemic by the World health Organization.
But although health authorities are only now acknowledging the fact, H1N1 influenza A, “evolved and hopped to humans several months before public health officials recognized the outbreak, according to a new analysis,” says LiveScience, quoting Nature magazine online.
“Scientists also said the virus’s early incarnation was festering in pigs for years but went undetected,” it says, going on there’s, “evidence that new genetic elements in swine can result in the emergence of viruses with pandemic potential in humans”.
Flu viruses evolve quickly, two or more strains in the body of a human or other animal swapping genes, “to generate new strains,” says the story.
“As an example, one relatively benign strain that is able to infect humans might pass that ability to a more deadly strain that had only been able to transmit between pigs, thereby evolving into a new strain that is deadly and can pass between humans.”
Researchers don’t know exactly when, how or where the current strain developed, it adds.
LiveScience – Swine Flu Evolved Unnoticed for Years, June 11, 2009
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June 11th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I read that this was going to happen on http://www.prisonplanet.com and http://www.infowars.com also covered it before it was officially said.
That tells you that this whole thing is staged. The NWO is evil.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I find it interesting that here in mexico its been more than 2 weeks since we stopped caring about the flu (the government officially said we’re now on “green” warning [no warning]). Before that, every news article had to do with the swine flu, now, even though it is a level 6 worldwide pandemic, nobody cares.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I have to wonder why they’re calling it a pandemic when so far, there has been only one death that I know of and less than a hundred cases in the United States (I don’t know about globally). Consider the odds: 300,000,000 people live in the united states (rough approximation, obviously, just to have a round number). One hundred cases in 300 million people is about a 0.000033% chance of actually catching the swine flu.
You’ve probably got a better chance of dying from common cold complications.
Tell me when this pandemic kills 100,000 people and I’ll start listening.
June 12th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Seriously? Aside from the fear-mongering that the lamescream media has perpetrated, who cares? It’s just the regular old flu. Just a run of the mill flu that happens to originally be found in pigs. If you’re very old, or very young, or immunocompromised and you get it… you may die. Just the exact same way you may die every year from the regular old flu. That’s why you should always get a flu shot if you’re over 60. There’s no real news with the whole swine flu, so they created some.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
“That’s why you should always get a flu shot if you’re over 60.”
Sheer propaganda.
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“Aside from the fear-mongering that the lamescream media has perpetrated, who cares?”
Yes, but people really need to ask themselves WHY such a comparatively mild flu wave has been given the “Level 6″ rating.
One thing the MSM doesn’t seem to be making too much noise about is that Level 6 also has some anti-Constitutional actions associated with it, such as martial law, mandatory vaccinations, and arbitrary seizure and/or destruction of personal properties.
You have to wonder WTF is coming here.