April 25-26, 2009 -- SPECIAL BULLETIN. New swine flu feared to be weaponized strain
author: Wayne Madsen Report, posted by Styve
According to two mainstream media journalists, one in Mexico City and the other in Jakarta, who spoke to WMR on background, they are convinced that the current outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States is the result of the introduction of a human-engineered pathogen that could result in a widespread global pandemic, with potentially catastrophic consequences for domestic and international travel and commerce.
The journalists have been told by top officials of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) about the grave dangers posed by the new and deadly swine flu strain, known as A-H1N1. The flu, never before seen by scientists, has already killed up to 68 people in Mexico and has forced the cancellation of public events, including sports matches and concerts, and the closure of schools, libraries, and museums. Eight cases have been reported in Texas and California and one Texas family is already under a quarantine. Doctors are examining several students at a Queens high school in New York who displayed symptoms similar to those experienced by swine flu patients in Mexico.
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Our Mexico City source said a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest that new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon. The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.
Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), A-H1N1 has gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains and a segment from Eurasian swine flu. Costa Rica, Brazil, and Peru have issued alerts to check all incoming passengers from Mexico at border crossings, airports, and seaports for symptoms of the swine flu.
WHO is convening an emergency session of its top medical experts in Geneva and is set to declare H1N1 a "public health event of international concern." It is reported that WHO will recommend travel restrictions to and from areas where the flu has been reported, including Mexico City and the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí and Oaxaca.
Our Jakarta source said WHO officials are afraid that the presence of gene segments from dreaded H5N1 bird flu in the A-H1N1 swine flu strain could mean that the new swine flu strain was engineered to "jump species." WMR has been informed that the CDC and U.S. Army dug up the body of an Inuit woman who died in 1918 in Brevig Mission, Alaska from an outbreak of Spanish flu. The influenza pandemic that year killed up to 100 million people worldwide in an 18-month period. Brevig Mission saw 72 of its 80 residents die within five days, the worst case recorded anywhere in the world. WMR has been told the genetic material recovered by the U.S. government from the corpse of the Inuit woman provided the basis for the development of the H5N1, or bird (avian), flu strain at the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the point of origin for the Ames strain of anthrax used in the 2001 bio-war attacks against the U.S. Congress and the media.
The fear in Asia is that if the A-H1N1 pandemic spreads to the United States, travel to and from the country will be all but shut down.
The following are the symptoms associated with A-H1N1:
* cough
* fever
* sore throat
* shortness of breath
* muscle and joint pain
The drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are seen as the most effective against A-H1N1.
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I detect a bad odor about this MexiFlu as well, particularly as it has showed up hundreds of miles apart, and almost simultaneously. Remember that the dengue 'bonebreak-fever' attack on Cuba in the '80s showed up in several cities at once--impossible without the actions of the CIA/Miami terrorist who later confessed. My interest was further piqued when I noted that the Mexiflu seems to show elements of the "cytokine storm," by targeting mostly people in the youthful prime of life. That was the devastating characteristic of the 1918 plague, and any self-respecting, recombinant plebe-reducing virus would likely incorporate that aspect.
A cytokine storm is a super-vigorous immune response that uses killer t-cells, antibodies, and other immune system elements to rush the primary battlefield of infection--in this case, the lungs. The result can be a rapid-onset pneumonia that strips so much lung material from the alveoli surfaces that no oxygen can enter. A slime and foam barrier prevents oxygen uptake, and the victims turn blue as they drown in the clear air, sometimes dying within hours of first symptoms. (How's that for terror?) This is also called cyanosis. [See The Great Influenza by John M. Barry.]
If this is the 'real deal,' it will move at an exponential pace; within days, then, we would hear that there are tens of thousands sick, and hundreds dead in Ciudad Mexico. If it isn't a plague, its spread will be much slower.
Currently there is an increasingly popular zeitgest, that is ready to examine the pointless torture and imperial invasions of the last US Executive Administration; moreover, people are beginning to catch on to the fact that the economic collapse was caused by elite-class gambling and worsened by "bailout" fraud that also enriched the inheritance class. The logical solution is revolution; how handy that a terrible plague should now appear on the horizon. Or does it? It's too early to tell; but it certainly doesn't look good from here.
Tamiflu resistance has been building in various bird flu strains, and if the Mexiflu includes that resistance, it could easily complicate attempts to remediate the crisis (though not before Cheney's investments get even fatter). On the other hand, there are antiviral drugs and herbs (sage, garlic, etc.) available. For myself, should I feel an overwhelming immunoresponse (fever with metabolic overload/shaking/weakness/pain), I will slam a shot of whiskey, to undermine the immune (cytokine) response. It might not work, but then, at least I have some good whiskey!
I mention this because some people swear that they survived the 1918 attack with an alcoholic toddy, administered just at the height of the initial symptoms. In any event it is worthwhile to carefully follow the Mexiflu event, to determine its virulence, and also to move quickly should we Cascadians need to demand a local quarantine, or to move to an effectively isolated area.