Recently we observed the release from the USDA of the recepie for next years seasonal flu vaccine, along with the companies that they were lisencing to produce this vaccine.

At the time, the question was asked if that vaccine would actually contain any protection against the newly circulating H3N2v virus that has been associated with county fairs in the US and where there have been over 300 human cases reported to date.

This author has repeatedly asserted that this strain was a deliberate human intervention.

A juvenile has been identified as Patient Zero.

This individual was initially negative to influenza when admitted into hospital for a different medical condition, but developed this new strain of influenza two days after admission.

The stand out fact about this first person to contract this strain is that it for the first time also, has the H1N1 Pandemic Swine Flu "M" gene attached to it, and it is that "M" gene that gave the H1N1 Swine flu its pandemic abilities when it did go pandemic in 2009.

Our question has been whether next years flu vaccination will in fact give protection against this new H3N2v flu, and from the contents of the following article, it would appear that this might NOT be the case.

That implies that this strain of H3N2v could easily become the dominant seasonal flu for next year as there will be no pretection against it, but as it has the H1M1 "M" gene it will naturally be highly contagous to humans, and will spread very easily indeed.

This also now adds itself to the latest flu strain that has also just emerged from those county fairs, and while only four cases have been positively identified, this strain called H1N2, has been identified in South Korea as highly transmissible in air and also highly deadly to ferrets, which researchers use as human models for influenza testing.

About the only thing we dont as yet know is if the two strains, one in the US and the other in South Korea are exactly the same H1N2 strains, if they are we are in for one very very bad flu season next year as there will be no protection against either of them.

This will inevidibly lead to many hunderds if not thousands to tens of thousands of fatalities from influenza next year.

The HHS statement noted that the previous set of contracts was used earlier this year to develop a vaccine against the swine-origin H3N2v flu strain that has infected a number of people exposed to pigs. Close to 300 cases have been reported in the past year, most of them this summer in people who had contact with pigs at county and state fairs.

HHS announced in January that Sanofi and Novartis would make a vaccine aimed at the H3N2v strain for use in clinical trials.

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