A deadly strain of swine flu is sweeping across Mexico and has already spread to bordering states in America, as well. Mexican health officials are sounding the alarm as the spread of the disease is described by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations agency, as approaching “pandemic levels.” More than 68 people have died in this outbreak of swine flu and at least a thousand more are suffering from the concomitant illnesses.

Scientists are struggling to identify the disease, describing it as a new strain of the virus that is a deadly mixture of pig, human, and bird influenza genes. To better understand the new disease, virologists and pathologists from around the world convened a meeting on Saturday in Geneva to share insights and test results aimed at containing and eventually eradicating this new killer.

Those attending the WHO meeting are particularly concerned with stemming the tide of the spread of the disease before it reaches verifiable pandemic proportions. So far, the disease seems to be attacking otherwise healthy young adults, while the elderly and infants, typically most vulnerable to such maladies, seem to be relatively unaffected. This worries scientists and historians as it calls to mind the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919 that killed nearly 40 million people worldwide. Avoiding such a global tragedy is the principal and propelling goal of the assembled health care specialists.

Doctors report that those suffering from this flu bug are demonstrating symptoms similar to those suffering from the regular flu virus: coughing, fever, and sore throat. Some of the American victims, however, are also complaining of diarrhea and vomiting. The primary impediment to fighting and surviving a bout with this new virus is that humans do not have a natural immunity to ward off diseases that are mixed with animal genes, this not only exacerbates the potency and deadliness of the disease, but it makes it much more difficult for scientists to develop an effective vaccine.

The rapid spread of the disease and its diagnosis in people from Texas and California have dismayed officials at the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and have dampened hope that the disease could be readily and rapidly contained. As a matter of fact, the level of concern among many in the Mexican government has prompted that country’s authorities to warn its citizens against attending events such as concerts or movies where they might unwittingly come into contact with those suffering from the disease and thus precipitate its dissemination.

Panic, confusion, anger, and fear are spreading through Mexico as rapidly as is the swine flu that foments these feelings. At hospitals throughout the country, many wait anxiously for test results praying that the cough or fever from which they or their loved ones suffer are only symptomatic of the normal, treatable influenza virus and not the new and fatal form. A genetically mutated strain of swine flu that for good reason has thousands of Mexicans, Americans, and potentially millions worldwide, panicking in fear of contracting an extremely communicable and as yet incurable disease.

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Nigel Thomas said:

	Swine Flu Slips Out Of Control Has The Pandemic Started? It's now way too late to contain this outbreak. Individuals and businesses need to use the time left to get at least the fundamentals of their business and home preparedness completed. The pandemic preparedness section of Bird Flu Manual Online can help.
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Nigel Thomas said:

	Swine Flu Slips Out Of Control Has The Pandemic Started? It's now way too late to contain this outbreak. Individuals and businesses need to use the time left to get at least the fundamentals of their business and home preparedness completed. The pandemic preparedness section (www.birdflu-manual.com/pandemic-preparedness.htm) of Bird Flu Manual Online (http://www.birdflu-manual.com) can help.
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Frank Annerino said:

	Swine Flu Scare - Just Another Way to Control People? Is the latest Swine Flu scare a real danger for Americans or just another way to intimidate an already cowed populus into accepting more draconian controls over every aspect of their lives? Consider also how convenient it would be also to legitimatize the call for so-called "Universal Healthcare"!
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Lee said:

The NAU of viruses have teamed up? The UN / one world order forces could use this latest "emergency" to clamp down further on our freedoms. In the 1918 influenza epidemic US army camps provided the perfect breeding ground for the virus to spread like wildfire and from the camps to the general population. Millions of people died world-wide. US army troops were not sent to control US citizens; they stayed in their army camps until shipped overseas to "fight the Kaiser," not the citizens of America. I wrote many letters to my former Congressman about the SPP and tried to convey to her how dangerous this secretive arrangement was that "W" was secretly pushing with his Mexican and Canadian partners. She would write back saying something to the effect that she supported this idea of an SPP to better deal with such things as the Bird flu. One worlders are opportunistic to threats to our national health. And if such "emergencies" don't come around fast enough to suit them then they contrive them. The bird flu was one such rumor that was going around and scaring the pants off people a few years ago. It was predicted to go to the pandemic stage. William Jasper wrote a couple of good articles about it in the TNA. The story now is that the bird flu, swine flu and a human virus have joined forces. 68 people dead is serious but we need to be on the look out because the one worlders will use this latest outbreak as an excuse to propagandize for more controls over us. Political overreaction to "national emergencies" can also produce bad results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

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Flu-Bird said:

	Sick at the border We didnt have any trouble with all this sickness until they opened the border and started allowing in all these illegal aliens with their vaccinations to enter and their wondering why people are getting sick It comes froma bunch of do gooders and their rediculous demands
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Pathenry said:

... The UN even had ready-made shell booklets to be translated and disseminated quickly in populations worldwide. Is it not probable that the 30-odd "vaccines" now given to children, and which contain neuron-killing mercury (for no good reason) as well as many animal viruses, is one reason for these new outbreaks? (Just ask your doc to sing an affidavit that any vaccine is pure and will not introduce all kinds of animal products and stray pathogens into you and your children - they will not do it.) With Bird Flu, the CDC was working on a way to mutate it such that it could enter the human system. It was No Danger to humans at the time. (I understand the ostensible reasoning that they were trying to use their intelligence ahead of a possible virus mutant. Not that I accept it.) I predict that if the CDC was defunded from the public dole, and the great advances in medical knowledge unshackled from the FDA, et. al., that private free enterprising, self-interested doctors and patients would come up with cheaper and more effective cures and preventions than Big Pharma even now fears will take away their money machine.

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