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« Reply #120 on: May 03, 2009, 02:48:04 pm »









EVERYDAY STRAIN



Dr. Gerald Hauer, chief provincial veterinarian, said that swine flu is known to occur in pigs in the province, particularly a common everyday strain of the swine flu virus.

But this is the first time they were made aware of a swine flu strain that could be transferred from humans to animals.

Biosecurity measures such as limiting visitors to pig farm operations and ensuring workers shower before and after entering pig farms, are in place to prevent other similar incidents, Hauer said.

He noted that the flu virus is a "notifiable" disease, meaning within 24 hours of noticing or suspecting signs of the swine flu, incidents must be reported to the chief veterinarian's office.

Corriveau, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, said from a human perspective, a possible human-to-animal transmission of the virus gives no reason to panic. He added that people should continue to take precautionary measures to prevent spreading disease.






TWO NEW CASES



Alberta Health and Wellness also confirmed that elsewhere in Alberta, two new cases have been recorded in northern Alberta and one in Calgary, bringing the provincial total to 15.

None of the patients have required hospitalization.



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                       As Swine Flu Eases Mexicans Ask: Was the Government Lucky or Good?

           




Tim Padgett and
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Mon May 4, 2009

The worst fears about swine flu seem to be dissipating in the Mexican capital as quickly as they arrived. And with plenty of time on their hands - President Felipe CalderÓn ordered all but the most necessary businesses shuttered and advised families to stay in their homes during the long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend - many Mexicans are wondering: Has the crisis abated because their government was diligent, or because it was lucky?


Once CalderÓn's administration learned on April 23 that it was dealing with a new flu virus type - A/H1N1, a unique mix of swine, avian and human strains - it moved swiftly to control its spread. As of Saturday night, the official number of confirmed swine-flu cases in Mexico stood at 473, less than a third of early estimates, and the death toll was only 19. (Health officials have stopped publicly tallying suspected cases; there are still so many garden-variety flu cases that they felt continued reporting of suspected cases of swine flu would unnecessarily add to the alarm.) (See pictures of the swine flu in Mexico.)


But at the same time, Mexican media outlets have begun to question whether health officials moved quickly enough at the end of March and the beginning of April, when strange flu cases began emerging, to get the strain identified. (See the 5 things you need to know about swine flu.)


In an interview with TIME, Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of Mexico's National Epidemiological Center, rejects the criticism. "When you're dealing with a completely new germ, it tasks any health system's early-response capacity," says Lezana. "But it's difficult for me to imagine how a country could have acted more rapidly than Mexico did in this case."


Still, the Mexico City daily Reforma on Sunday quoted a report from the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland, suggesting that Mexican officials should have sent samples from flu patients - including the first Mexican believed to have contracted A/H1N1, 5-year-old Edgar Hernandez of Veracruz state, and the first to die from it, Adela Maria Gutierrez, 39, of Oaxaca - to labs in Canada and the U.S. sooner than April 22. Reforma notes that the first analyses of Gutierrez's blood and tissue samples done by Lezana's agency diagnosed severe pneumonia instead of flu. (Swine-flu victims usually die of pneumonia-like symptoms.) TIME has obtained a copy of Lezana's agency's medical report on Gutierrez, which concluded, in some respects mistakenly, that she was negative for a number of flu types.


Oaxaca state health minister Martin Vasquez tells TIME he pressed for further analysis and sent more samples - which then tested positive for flu. A week later, Lezana received word in a teleconference with Canadian officials that Gutierrez's cause of death, and the strange cause of illness for hundreds of other patients showing up in Mexican clinics and hospitals, was A/H1N1. Lezana concedes that Mexican labs did not then have the rare and expensive form of PCR and RT-PCR analysis - a means of identifying a virus' genetic makeup - to pinpoint such an unusual strain. (They have such analysis now.)


The WHO has generally praised Mexico's response to the pandemic. For his part, Lezana insists the media "misinterpreted" his quote in an Associated Press article last week suggesting the WHO itself should have acted in a "more immediate" manner after Mexico informed it on April 16 that the flu strain that had killed Gutierrez seemed abnormal. "I wasn't claiming any delay on the WHO's part," Lezana tells TIME. What he was noting, he says, was that because the flu strain seemed atypical, there was a generalized fear among health officials "that we might not be able to learn its transmission characteristics fast enough. When you're dealing with an unknown virus, part of the hypothesis is that it will move faster because the population is more vulnerable. Thankfully, its capacity for transmission, its virulence, turned out to be relatively low compared to what we'd originally estimated."


Lezana says Mexican and international virus sleuths are "much closer than we were a week ago" to determining the geographical, animal and human origins of the swine-flu outbreak - which may not even be in Mexico. (Until late last week, most media reports speculated that Hernandez's village in Veracruz, La Gloria de Perote, where large pig farms are located, was ground zero, but many Mexican and international health officials now say it could be in California or even Asia.) But it could take weeks if not months for a final answer.


For many Mexicans, meanwhile, concern has moved from health to the economy. The global financial crisis has already battered Mexico; now tourism, one of the nation's top three sources of income along with oil and migrant-worker remittances, stands to take a severe hit because of the epidemic scare. (See the top 5 swine-flu don'ts.)


Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova warned his countrymen Saturday evening that it's "premature to say we've passed the [outbreak's] most worrisome moment." But the positive flu-containment news coming from the government may well put public pressure on CalderÓn to let businesses like restaurants open sooner than the end of the long Cinco de Mayo weekend on Tuesday. With few people on the streets on what is usually a bustling Mexico holiday, businessmen like taxi driver Francisco Diaz are chafing. "I've been driving all day and all I've got to show for it is 60 pesos [$4.60]," says Diaz. "It's like we've protected ourselves healthwise but now we won't survive economically." 
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                                  Researchers can't agree on severity of swine flu outbreak



           


Tony Pugh,
Mcclatchy Newspapers
Fri May 4, 2009
WASHINGTON

— More than a month into the swine flu outbreak that's now affected 13 countries, medical experts are wondering aloud whether the contagious disease will ever become the pandemic that everyone fears.

With at least 143 infections now confirmed in 23 states, the H1N1 virus continues to spread via person-to-person transmission.

The overwhelming majority of new cases, however, have been mild and haven't required hospitalization. Only one death, of a Mexican toddler, has occurred on U.S. soil.

As the disease migrates farther from its Mexican origins, where it's thought to have killed more than 150 people and sickened thousands of others, it hasn't yet packed the fatal punch that the world is bracing for.

That could change at any time because flu viruses are unpredictable and can mutate into a more dangerous strain in a short period of time.

The multitude of evidence, thus far, however, suggests that the swine flu virus won't follow the path of the 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions worldwide.

In fact, most experts still agree that President Barack Obama had it right when he said the outbreak is a cause for concern, but not alarm.

"I've said from the very beginning that I thought this might not play out so severely," said Matthew Boulton , an epidemiology professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health .

In the aftermath of the anthrax attacks in 2001 and the more recent avian flu scares, Boulton said the nation's public health and security infrastructure "might be primed a bit for overresponse," to potential health threats.

For experts to compare the current outbreak to the 1918 pandemic is "pretty irresponsible," at this stage, Boulton said.

Boulton said it's "highly improbable" that the U.S. swine flu death toll will even approach the estimated 36,000 Americans who die each year of seasonal flu.

Lee Harrison , a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of Pittsburgh , agreed that preliminary data suggests the outbreak won't become a world pandemic, but he cautioned that the 1918 outbreak began as a mild form of influenza.

"It wasn't until it came back the following flu season that you really saw a real devastating pandemic in terms of death," Harrison said of the 1918 influenza. The second and third waves of the 1918 outbreak killed about 50 million people worldwide.

Harrison said it would take more work and time to determine the mortality rate from the current outbreak, but that "it does appear to be low and it doesn't appear to be in range with the 1918 pandemic. But again, it's a rapidly evolving situation and in 1918, it was the second wave that was particularly nasty."

Researchers at Northwestern and Indiana Universities have developed separate computer models that both estimate — in a worst-case scenario — that some 1,700 new swine flu infections will be confirmed in the U.S. over the next month.

Whether the current swine flu scare mirrors the 1976 swine flu outbreak at Fort Dix, N.J. , remains unclear. More than one-quarter of the population was vaccinated in the 1976 swine flu outbreak, although fewer than 300 confirmed cases were identified and only one death occurred before it petered out.

It was early reports of Mexican fatalities that prompted concern about the current virus. But those deaths may only represent a very small percent of people who were actually infected with the disease, Boulton said.

Many more infections in Mexico may have gone unreported because patients had only mild symptoms that required no medical attention. Higher poverty rates and poor access to medical care may also have inflated the death toll, Boulton said.

Dr. Andrew Potter , the director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada , said, however, that there's enough about the new virus to warrant preparation for the worst, particularly its propensity to attack young, healthy adults.

"Now who knows whether that's simply a matter of them being the first ones exposed in that first wave, who knows? But that's what's giving people at the World Health Organization and public health officials around the world reason to think twice about this," Potter said.

Seasonal influenzas kill mostly infants, the elderly and people with immune deficiencies. Potter said it will take another week or so to really get a handle on how serious the swine flu problem really is.

"You've got to be prudent because it very clearly is a threat. No question about it," Potter said. "Most of us are waiting for more data to give us more direction as to which way this thing is going to go." 
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                                 Swine flu goes person-to-pig; could it jump back?






         
Margie Mason,
Ap Medical Writer
May 4, 2009
MEXICO CITY

– Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people? The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly.

The never-before-seen virus was created when genes from pig, bird and human viruses mixed together inside a pig. Experts fear the virus that has gone from humans back into pigs in at least one case could mutate further before crossing back into humans again. But no one can predict what will happen.

"Could it gain virulence? Yes," Juan Lubroth, an animal health expert at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, said Sunday. "It could also become milder. It could go in both directions."

Canadian officials announced Saturday that the virus had infected about 200 pigs on a farm — the first evidence that it had jumped to another species. It was linked to a farmworker who recently returned from Mexico, where 19 people have died from the virus. The farmworker has recovered, and the mildly infected pigs have been quarantined.

Agriculture officials believe the worker may have sneezed or coughed near the pigs, possibly in a barn. About 10 percent of the herd experienced loss of appetite and fever, but all are recovering.

Experts say pork — even from infected pigs — is safe to eat.

Lubroth stressed that sick people should avoid contact with swine, but said healthy farmworkers don't need to take any extra precautions because the chance of catching flu from a pig is small.

Unlike the H5N1 bird flu virus, which infects the blood, organs and tissue of poultry, most swine flus are confined to the respiratory tract, meaning the risk of a human getting infected by a pig is "probably 10 or a 1,000 times less," Lubroth said.

But pigs are of special concern because they share some basic biological similarities with humans, and they have served as "mixing vessels" in which various flu strains have swapped genetic material. That's what happened to create the current swine flu strain.

Scientists are unsure when the virus leaped from pigs to humans — possibly months or even a year ago — but it was identified as a new strain about a week and a half ago. Since then, nearly 800 cases have been confirmed worldwide. The only death outside Mexico occurred when a Mexican toddler died in a Texas hospital.

There have been sporadic cases of pigs infecting humans with influenza in the past. Most cases resulted in mild symptoms, typically among people who were in close contact with sick pigs. A few deaths have been recorded, and limited human-to-human transmission also has been documented, but nothing sustained.

Dr. Tim Uyeki, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who has worked on SARS and bird flu outbreaks, said there may be more pig-to-human cases that have gone unnoticed because surveillance among swine populations tends to be weaker than among poultry stocks.

Given that the past three flu pandemics — the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957-58 Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 — were all linked to birds, much of the global pandemic preparedness has focused on avian flus.

"The world has been watching and preparing and trying to prevent a pandemic from an avian influenza reservoir," he said. "The focus has been on birds, and here is a virus that's coming from a swine reservoir. Now it's a human virus."



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                                      Mexico jet lands in China to fly nationals home
           




 
Dan Martin
May 5, 2009
BEIJING
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– A jet from Mexico landed in Shanghai on Tuesday on a mission that includes stops in three other Chinese cities to bring home dozens of Mexicans quarantined under strict swine flu measures.

The four-stop trip, which also takes in Beijing, Guangzhou, in the south, and Hong Kong, comes after China at the weekend suspended flights to and from Mexico, the epicentre of the outbreak, leaving tourists at both ends stranded.

Amid frosty ties with Mexico over Beijing's handling of its nationals, a chartered AeroMexico flight was to collect 43 Mexicans quarantined in Shanghai, before flying to the capital and then heading south later in the day.

At a Shanghai hotel, armed police supervised masked medical staff in protective clothing transferring the Mexicans into about 30 ambulances taking them to the airport, said Eastday.com, a website run by the city government.

The AeroMexico flight will also pick up 10 people in Hong Kong, a Mexican consular official in the territory told AFP, but it was not clear how many people in total it would collect.

The jet would also fly home Mexicans who had not been quarantined but who wanted to go back for various reasons.

Mexican diplomats have complained that 70 of their nationals were put in isolation in mainland China despite showing no signs of the (A)H1N1 virus.

Some of the quarantined Mexicans had travelled to China on board the same flight that carried an infected Mexican man -- Asia's first confirmed case of swine flu -- who is now in a Hong Kong hospital.

The illness, which appears to have originated in Mexico, has spread across more than 20 countries and killed 26 in all.

In the face of criticism of its handling of the affair, China has denied targeting Mexicans with its flu measures, saying they were "not directed at Mexican citizens and are not discriminatory."

But Mexican Pedro Diaz, 28, a tourist, said "a couple of hotels refused to take me in" after seeing his passport, as his countrymen arrived at the embassy here to try to get a seat on the charter plane.

China, meanwhile, also sent a plane to Mexico to fetch 200 of its citizens stranded by the flu crisis there, China Southern Airlines said in a statement, after the two countries agreed to a repatriation deal.

Amid further discontent with how China was dealing with international visitors from countries with confirmed flu cases, Canada has asked Beijing to explain the quarantine at the weekend of 22 students.

Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said they had been isolated in a hotel in northwest China. Canada has one of the highest numbers of cases of the virus.

One of the students, Martin Leroy Deslauriers, told AFP by phone from the hotel that none of the students had any symptoms and they believed they were singled out by authorities in the city of Changchun for being Canadian.

"I am sure they have their reasons but I think its mostly symbolic because we are Canadian and some people had the flu in Canada," said Deslauriers, 26, from Montreal.

None of the hotel staff wore masks and teachers from their local university were allowed to come and go freely to teach classes at the hotel, he said.

At least four US citizens are now or have been quarantined in China, a US embassy official said Tuesday
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                                  Chinese, Mexicans return home as flu fears ease
           





Royston Chan And
Alistair Bell
May 5, 2009
SHANGHAI/MEXICO CITY
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– Mexico was flying home dozens of its citizens on Tuesday quarantined in China over fears of a new flu virus and announced plans to revive its economy hit by the deadly epidemic, which showed signs of easing.

An Aeromexico plane arrived in Beijing to pick up Mexican nationals there, after taking on dozens in Shanghai. The flight was scheduled to head south to Guangzhou and then to neighboring Hong Kong before flying home.

None of the 70 or so Mexicans quarantined in mainland China have shown symptoms of the H1N1 flu, but they have been caught up in a drama about how far governments should go to stifle fears the virus could creep across their borders.

The row has strained what had been a warming relationship but, with Beijing courting Latin America as a trade and diplomatic partner, the damage appears unlikely to last.

Xinhua reported that a Chinese chartered flight had retrieved 79 Chinese nationals in Mexico City before heading to Tijuana, where it was expected to pick up 20 more. China has suspended direct scheduled flights to Mexico.

Mexico is considered the epicenter of the flu outbreak that has infected more than 1,200 people in 21 countries over the past week. To date, 27 deaths have been officially confirmed -- 26 in Mexico and one in the United States -- though more than 100 are suspected to have died from the flu.

Its global spread has kept alive fears of a possible pandemic, although scientists say this strain does not appear more deadly than seasonal flu.

Other flu-affected nations also have had citizens caught up in China's quarantine measures.
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U.S., CANADIANS QUARANTINED



A spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Beijing, Richard Buangan, said at least four U.S. citizens were quarantined at one point "but most of them have been released." The United States had not issued any protest over the matter, he said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a news conference 25 Canadian students were also in quarantine in a northeast Chinese city but had shown no flu symptoms.

An official with the Canadian embassy in Beijing said his government knew of the quarantine in a hotel in Changchun, but he put the number of students affected at 22. The students from the University of Montreal came to China last week for language studies, according to Canadian news reports.

South Korea confirmed its second case of H1N1 flu, a nun who had been in contact with the first patient, health ministry officials said on Tuesday. The first patient was a 51-year-old nun who had visited Mexico and showed symptoms after returning to South Korea. She has since recovered.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced a stimulus package, including a temporary tax cut for cruise lines visiting Mexico, in a bid to lure back shiploads of foreign visitors.

The new H1N1 flu strain has walloped the tourism sector, accounting for 8 percent of Mexico's economy, prompting major operators like Carnival Cruise Lines to cancel visits.

Calderon said details of the stimulus plan would be given in coming days, telling the nation in a televised broadcast: "We're going to come out of this experience successfully and soon."

He repeated government assurances that Mexico was over the worst of its own epidemic.

Calderon condemned the quarantine measures against Mexican citizens overseas as "discriminatory."

China has denied that, saying isolation was the correct procedure. China's vast population and patchy medical infrastructure make it vulnerable should the virus take hold.

In Hong Kong, some 300 guests and staff remained quarantined in a hotel where China's single confirmed H1N1 case, a 25-year-old Mexican man, had stayed. 
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TRADE TENSIONS OVER PORK



While the new H1N1 virus is not food-borne, fears of cross-border contagion stirred up international trade tensions after about 20 nations banned imports of pigs, pork and other meat from the United States, Canada and Mexico, the three most flu-affected countries.

Canada threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization unless Beijing backs down from its ban on imports of pigs and pork from the province of Alberta, where a herd of pigs was found to have the H1N1 strain.

China's Foreign Ministry said it was within its rights to take emergency health measures.

Health experts, citing precedents such as the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that killed millions of people, warn the latest epidemic could attack more violently a few months from now.

With infections of the new flu strain cropping up across the globe, the World Health Organization wavered over whether it might declare a full pandemic alert.

WHO chief Margaret Chan said the apparent good news from Mexico over the epidemic had to be treated with caution.

Before issuing a level 6 pandemic alert, the WHO would need to see the virus spreading within communities in Europe or Asia.

"No one can say right now how the pandemic will evolve or indeed whether we are going into a pandemic," Chan told a U.N. General Assembly session.

While U.S. hog futures fell on Monday over the flu alert, Mexico's peso made its biggest gains in more than six months and stocks jumped as health fears eased.

European finance ministers said they saw no evidence the H1N1 flu was hurting Europe's economy.




(Additional reporting by

Pascal Fletcher,
Robert Campbell,
Daniel Trotta,
Louise Egan and

Michael O'Boyle
in Mexico City;

 Laura MacInnis
in Geneva,

Patrick Worsnip
in New York,

Maggie Fox and
Andrew Quinn
in Washington;

Writing by
Bill Tarrant;

Editing by
Paul Tait)
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                             China says quarantine of Canadian students legal






(Xinhua)
Updated:
2009-05-05
BEIJING

- China defended on Tuesday its quarantine of 25 Canadian students in Changchun, capital of northeastern Jilin Province, saying it was in accordance with law and the Canadians had assented to it.

The students began a seven-day quarantine period at a hotel on May 2 when they arrived, the same day that Canada confirmed 51 cases of A/H1N1 epidemic infection, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu.



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 Chinese nationals leave Mexico in chartered plane

 China´s 2nd anti-flu aid arrives in Mexico

 Some fear flu rebound as Mexico seeks 'normalcy'

 Mexico says flu ebbing, lowers alert level

 Mexico flight passengers quarantined
 
 
 
Canada has recorded up to 140 cases of A/H1N1 flu by Tuesday, the third-highest figure following Mexico and the United States.

Ma said the quarantine was in line with the Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases and Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of China.

The students were being treated well, and the authorities had made favorable arrangements for their residence, food and health care.

None of the students showed any signs of illness and they were satisfied with the situation, said Ma.

The local government had informed the Canadian embassy in China of the quarantine on May 3, and the two countries had been in close contact regarding the virus, said Ma.



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                                       Texas confirms first flu death of US resident
           





Christopher Sherman,
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– 52 mins ago
April 5, 2009
McALLEN,
Texas

– Texas health officials have confirmed the first death of a United States resident with swine flu.

Few details were immediately released.

But health officials say the patient who died earlier this week was a woman in her 30s who lived
in Cameron County, along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Carrie Williams, spokeswoman with the Texas Department of State Health Services, said Tuesday the woman had other, chronic health problems, but didn't offer specifics.

Last week, a boy from Mexico City died at a Houston hospital, marking the first swine flu death in the United States.
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US Need 600 Million Swine Flu Vaccine Doses

Questions abound about how to best inoculate the world against swine flu as health officials plan for a campaign that could dwarf any previous flu vaccination effort.    
      
Among the issues to be resolved are the amount of vaccine likely to be available, the timing of the vaccine's availability, how it would be distributed, who would provide the shots, who would pay for them and whether it will be possible to track potential side effects.

At a recent meeting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health officials said U.S. demand could reach 600 million doses of vaccine, enough for two doses for each of the approximate 300 million people in the United States. That's in case two doses are required for children and adults under 50, CDC representatives said, CNN reports.

However no final decision has been made about whether a swine flu vaccination campaign will take place or whether all Americans would get immunizations. Health officials said that a swine flu vaccination campaign could be only a few months away, and that as many as 60 million doses could be ready by September. The timing depends on how fast a vaccine can be produced and tested, however.

Health officials are clearly getting ready for a massive vaccination effort, and worry that illnesses could continue or even accelerate in the fall or winter. Preparation discussions dominated a three-day meeting in Atlanta of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel that guides U.S. vaccination policy, The Associated Press reports.

Meanwhile New York City officials on Wednesday reported six more deaths from the A/H1N1 flu virus, bringing the city's total to 38, Xinhua reports.

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Swine flu quarantine grows at San Quentin


The number of quarantined prisoners at San Quentin has ballooned from 800 last week to 2,100 over the weekend. That is nearly half the prison's total population of 5,200 men.

That's according to Luis Patino, the communications director for health services receiver for the California state prisons.

"We're assessing the situation continuously," said Patino, "This is a rapidly changing situation and we'll have updates as time goes by."


Patino told us the quarantine had expanded because additional prisoners beyond the solo quarantined block have fallen ill, although they haven't yet been confirmed as having H1N1. Of the prisoners who've fallen ill, 35 are suspected and four are probable. The prison is still awaiting final confirmation on the four probables.

The quarantine includes all prisoners that are found in an area of suspected flu. The men that are healthy will be confined to their cells and the sick individuals will be isolated. No visitors will be allowed during the quarantine.

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Argentina's Banks To Shut Friday As Swine Flu Measure -Report



BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- Argentina's private-sector banks will shut down Friday as part of a nationwide effort to contain the spread of the A/H1N1 swine flu, local press reported Friday.

The banks' decision coincides with Friday's special holiday for all government workers, which was declared by the Interior Ministry on Tuesday.

Friday's holiday rolls on from Thursday's Independence Day holiday, and authorities believe people will use the long weekend as an excuse to stay home and therefore help slow the spread of the virus.

The Argentine Health Ministry on Sunday reported that the official death toll in Argentina from swine flu has reached 60, and there are a total of 2,485 officially confirmed cases.

However, many believe the official numbers lag the actual rate of infection, and that the real numbers are much higher.

The Argentine Banking Association wasn't immediately able to confirm the reports.

-By Matthew Cowley, Dow Jones Newswires; +54 11 4103 6740; matthew.cowley@ dowjones.com

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« Reply #133 on: July 08, 2009, 06:27:26 pm »

Canadian Doctor: H1N1 Vaccination a Eugenics Weapon for Mass Extermination


Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Canadian doctor Ghislaine Lanctôt, author of the Medical Mafia, has underscored the lawsuit recently filed by Austrian journalist Jane Bürgermeister against the WHO, the UN, and several high ranking government and corporate officials. Bürgermeister has documented how an international corporate criminal syndicate plans to unleash a deadly flu virus and institute a forced vaccination program.

“I am emerging from a long silence on the subject of vaccination, because I feel that, this time, the stakes involved are huge. The consequences may spread much further than anticipated,” writes Lanctôt, who believes the A(H1N1) virus will be used in a pandemic concocted and orchestrated by the WHO, an international organization that serves military, political and industrial interests.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mh9f_swine-flu-1976-propaganda_webcam
1979 CBS 60 Minutes episode concerning the 1976 swine flu “pandemic” in the U.S

Lanctôt warns that the elite and their minions will introduce a compulsory vaccination that will contain a deadly virus and this will be used specifically as a eugenics weapon for “massive and targeted reduction of the world population.” Moreover, a pandemic will also be used to further establish martial law and a police state, according to Lanctôt, and activate concentration camps “built to accommodate the rebellious” and eventually transfer power from all nations to a single United Nations government and thus fulfill the sinister plans of the New World Order.

In her book The Medical Mafia, Lanctôt writes about the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccination. “Because of my professional status, my words weighed significantly in the public eye. The Medical Board’s reaction was immediate and strong. Its leaders demanded that I resign as a physician. I answered that I would do so as long as they could prove that what I had written was false. The Medical Board replied with a call for my expulsion,” she writes. “As I witnessed the disproportionate reaction of the Medical Board, I realized that, for the health establishment, the subject of vaccination was taboo. Unknowingly, I had opened a Pandora’s box. I discovered that, despite official claims, vaccines have nothing to do with public health. Underneath the governmental stamp of approval, there are deep military, political and industrial interests.”

During her trial in 1995, Lanctôt used an episode from the March 11th, 1979, 60 Minutes TV show covering the massive vaccination program foisted on the American public supposedly in response to the 1976 swine flu outbreak. It was later established by the CDC that the virus originated out of Fort Dix in New Jersey. “The Fort Dix outbreak may have been a zoonotic anomaly caused by introduction of an animal virus into a stressed population in close contact in crowded facilities during a cold winter,” note Joel C. Gaydos, Franklin H. Top, Jr, Richard A. Hodder, and Philip K. Russell.

It was also characterized “a rare example of an influenza virus with documented human to human transmission,” according to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The virus is “thought to be a direct descendant of the virus that caused the pandemic of 1918,” explained Richard Krause, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time.

“Public health experts, fearing a possible replay of the 1918 pandemic, engaged in an intense debate about how to respond. Eventually they launched a nationwide vaccination campaign, which was announced by President Gerald Ford in March. By the end of the year, 48 million people had been vaccinated,” write Robert Roos and Lisa Schnirring of the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy. “But the feared pandemic never materialized.”

Instead, numerous people came down with Guillian-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing neurologic illness, after receiving the government-hyped vaccination.

More than 33 years later, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, a board certified neurosurgeon, “we are hearing the same cries of alarm from a similar lineup of virology experts. The pharmaceutical companies are busy designing a vaccine for the swine flu in hope that this administration will make the vaccine mandatory before another vaccine-related disaster can ruin their party…. Like SARS and bird flu before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense. Just take your high dose vitamin D3 (5000 IU a day), eat a healthy diet and take a few immune boosting supplements (such as beta-1, 3/1, 6 glucan) and you will not have to worry about this flu.”

According to a source known to former NSA official Wayne Madsen, “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 the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.

In April, Army criminal investigators were looking into the possibility that disease samples went missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. “Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases,” the Frederick News Post reported. “Obviously, in light of the current swine flu scare, and the new strain’s possible synthetic origin, the fact that virus samples may have gone missing from the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released is extremely disturbing,” Paul Joseph Watson wrote at the time.

Jane Bürgermeister “charges that the entire ’swine flu’ pandemic business is premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out there that poses a threat to the population,” writes Barbara Minton for Natural Health News. “She presents evidence leading to the belief that the bird flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been bioengineered in laboratories using funding supplied by the WHO and other government agencies, among others. This ’swine flu’ is a hybrid of part swine flu, part human flu and part bird flu, something that can only come from laboratories according to many experts.”

Minton continues:

Using the “swine flu” as a pretext, the defendants [in Bürgermeister's lawsuit] have preplanned the mass murder of the U.S. population by means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme to hand power over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses the UN and WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized crime activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqHmIVDLwM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprisonplanet%2Ecom%2Fcanadian%2Ddoctor%2Dh1n1%2Dvaccination%2Da%2Deugenics%2Dweapon%2Dfor%2Dmass%2Dextermination%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

Obama’s Bilderberg Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius — and Bilderberg member — wants to make it easy for kids to get their toxin-laden eugenicist “swine flu” vaccine this fall. “Schoolchildren may be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and might even be able to get the shot right at school,” the Associated Press reported on June 16.

As we noted last month, the government appears to be planning a mandatory flu vaccination program. In a recent article on the unfolding economic collapse, Rep. Ron Paul warns that the hysterically hyped H1N1 flu “pandemic” may result in the government requiring mandatory flu vaccinations. “Nearly $8 billion will be spent to address a ‘potential pandemic flu’ which could result in mandatory vaccinations for no discernible reason other than to enrich the pharmaceutical companies that make the vaccine,” writes Paul.

Considering the track record of the global elite, the government-mandated vaccination program now in the works — as Ghislaine Lanctôt and Jane Bürgermeister warn — will serve the eugenicist plan to depopulate the planet. A contrived pandemic will also set the final stage for the implementation of martial law and a high-tech surveillance and police state grid.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/canadian-doctor-h1n1-vaccination-a-eugenics-weapon-for-mass-extermination.html
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« Reply #134 on: July 14, 2009, 12:36:53 pm »

Swede and German start application to have Baxter’s licence to distribute vaccines in Sweden and Germany withdrawn
By birdflu666

Applications to have Baxter’s license to distribute vaccines in Sweden and Germany given the ongoing criminal investigation into Baxter’s activities in Austria have been formally lodged. The applications cite concerns over Baxter’s contamination and distribution of 72 kilos of vaccine material with live bird flu virus supplied by WHO, which nearly sparked a global bird flu pandemic in Feburary, according to the Times of India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health–Science/Science/Virus-mix-up-by-lab-could-have-resulted-in-pandemic/articleshow/4230882.cms

A Swede is writing a formal letter to the Swedish Medical Products Agency to make an inquiry into whether Baxter´s license to distribute vaccines in Sweden can be withdrawn given the company is under criminal investigation. The Medical Products Agency has confirmed it will register that letter and have their lawyers look at it.

Also, a German has sent a fax to the head of the the country’s medical products institute requesting the suspension of Baxter’s licence to distribute its H1N1 “swine flu” vaccines for the duration of the criminal investigation, citing reports in the German media of an imminent mass vaccination of the population against the H1N1 virus and concerns for safety.

This is the fax in German below.

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Per Fax: 0228-99 307-5207

An Seite 1 v 2

Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte

Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Löwer

Kurt-Georg Kiesinger-Allee 3
53175 Bonn 14.07.2009

H5N1, H1N1 – Viren, Baxter-Skandal, Strafanzeigen, Antrag auf Sistierung von Zulassungen

Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Löwer

Inzwischen liegen in den deutschen Medien Berichte vor, nachdem auch in Deutschland über Massenimpfungen gegen die „Schweinegrippe“ entschieden werden soll!

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/07/10/schweinegrippe-h1n1/usa-planen-massenimpfungen-impfplan-deutschland.html

Gemäss mir vorliegenden Unterlagen und Informationen wurden diverse Strafanzeigen gegen das Unternehmen Baxter in diversen Ländern und über das FBI in den USA gestellt, u. a. von der investigativen österreichischen Journalistin Jane Bürgermeister. Hier insbesondere deswegen, weil Baxter aus Österreich heraus tödliche Grippevirenmixturen hergestellt und/oder vertrieben hat (72 kg) und die WHO über diese Angelegenheit informiert bzw. möglicherweise involviert war. Bitte lesen Sie hierzu die entsprechenden angegebenen Link-Quellen.

Hiermit beantrage ich, dass die Zulassungen für entsprechende Präparate von der Fa. Baxter und deren Partner-/Tochterunternehmen für die Dauer der strafrechtlichen Untersuchungen in Deutschland sistiert werden.

Da dieser Sachverhalt für uns Bürger mehr als alarmierend und höchst brisant ist, erbitte ich um Ihre dringende Nachricht bis 17.07.09 per Fax bei mir eintreffend, ob und wie sie in dieser Angelegenheit verfahren werden.

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

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In addition, Annika emailed the European Union’s ECDC inquiring how the Baxter investigation in Austria is moving ahead. Copy below.

To: pierluigi.lopalco@ecdc.europa.eu
Subject: Baxter Investigation
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:11:48 +0200

Hello,

As you may know Baxter International sent out 72 kilos of seasonal influenza vaccine, contaminated with H5N1, earlier this year. It is my understanding that ECDC is responsible for coordinating the investigation regarding this event. So I would like to know how this process is moving ahead.

http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/swede-starts-application-to-have-baxters-licence-to-distribute-vaccines-in-sweden-withdrawn/
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