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WHATS GOING ON THE CANADA? DEATH FLU LIKE

 
antwan

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that norwegian dude politician said it would be a viral outbrake this year . He said it would star from the middle east and china region and cover more and more over the world.

Re: Preparing for Catastrophe in Norway - VERY IMPORTANT !!! Quote

This just in from a trusted friend of mine and now i see what is happening all over the world and this is just the begining i think

Hello xxxxxxx this is the E - mail the Norwegian politician sent to me ,and to bill and kerry at project camelot.

GREG . B



Dear bill and kerry . from K‏
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 10:28:51 PM
To: Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy ([email protected])



Dear bill and kerry i am so sorry for not beeing able to contact you , but the time wasnt right ! so had to lay low for some time

Its been long time since we have been in contact ! i told you things would start up in the end of 2007 and 2008 and you see what is hapening already .

As Mr zagami to knows i was arrested by the PST in norway , and they held me for 7 days .The secret police all dressed in black in the middle of the night arrived at my place the very same day you and bill came to norway . They also had an eye on you guys from the very instance you got into norway . And they had you under surrveilance all the time .

I was released 15 miles from my home town and with no other explaination than

they just said we know what you know and that you have given surrtain information to people outside of norway .


I just got of with a warning to keep quiet , and some simple threats to my family to.

Its harde to live a normal life for me to now under constant surrvailance all the time ,but as to my position and what i hold on to of info they can not do anything more than this to me .

As we se now the countdown for 2012 has begun and people are getting ready , you will notice that more and more people woke up the day we started with our story .And more and more people see now what is happening in the new world that is emerging .

All i will say is be prepared for what is to come . But i see that many others are coming forth with information of what i already have told you and with all the people helping you guys the dots are getting clearer time by time .

My meeting with some of the other trusted ministers told me some things that would take the chill down your spines .
there will be Increased deaths in humans just you wait and se because of a viral outbrake , and as i now know the virus outbrake will start from the middle east and china region so if your planning a trip there dont go ,they tested a low level virus some months ago all over just to se how many would get infected , people just thought it was the common flu, but you will se once when the real virus is released and airborne nearly all of the species on this earth will be driven to extinction one by one . The Date has been sett and in november this year you will what will happen see so just look out for what is to come this is all i will say .

They are just going to tell people to relax and that they have it all under controle .

The big picture is building it self up more and more .

The usual suspects and the order of light is doing well on their agenda

Its going to be some time before i contact you again !!!!!!!

Give my best wishes to dan and the rest of the people you speak to and your team .

The time is running out !!!!! you will see

And love to you both !

Have a nice day

Kind regards

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close the boarders...here it comes...it's in the air...
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The Happening is happening before the movie even came out! Damn!
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you mean this one dont yaaaaa looks like a cool movie .

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If it was something released on the train, then I would think there would be more than just 10 people with symptoms. Sounds more viral to me.


Perhaps, but 10 people also don't instantly get flu like symptoms all at the same time as well. Some people have a higher chemical sensitivity than others which could explain the symptoms in some and not in others. I don't know but I do know I am not falling for the flu explanation. There is such thing as incubation time to consider in a viral case.
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They were on that train together for a couple days. Long enough time to catch something viral.
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shit, i'm on the route too. i live in saskatoon.

i'll let you guys know if any zombies start running around here.
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Not sure if this is related but it may be...

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More cases of measles may be tied to PATH system
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A measles outbreak has reared its ugly head in Toronto again, with 4
new cases reported to Public Health in the past few days. Initial
reports of the illness surfaced in early spring [2008]. Since the
start of the investigation into the sudden breakout 9 cases have now
been reported. Outbreaks have also been noted in other parts of
Ontario, as well as in Europe and the United States.

But these new cases are more worrisome for authorities. 2 of them
were traced back to patients who had been at the Scotia and TD
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system [a 27-kilometre (17-mi) network of pedestrian tunnels beneath
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new cases either live or work downtown," reveals Dr Barbara Yaffe,
director of Communicable Disease Control for Toronto Public Health.
"Anyone born before 1970 likely had measles in childhood, and is
therefore protected. Everyone else should ensure they have had 2
doses of measles vaccine for full protection, especially as we know
measles is circulating in Toronto."

Measles is rare in Canada, and only about 3 cases are seen in Toronto
each year, so the increase is significant. CityNews Medical
Specialist Dr Karl Kabasele explains the disease is easily
transmitted from one person to another, increasing the concern. "If
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leave droplets in the air, which you can theoretically come into
contact with. I should hasten to add that Public Health is working
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Toronto Public Health is recommending that those who received a
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"We at VIA regret the circumstances of this event... ATTN: Passengers, sandwiches are available for $5.75"

Nothing worse than being stuck on a VIA train. rant
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That's very funny. It was likely the sandwiches that caused the event.
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Via train quarantined in northern Ontario, 1 dead
Train was travelling from Vancouver to Toronto when passenger died
Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 | 1:35 PM ET Comments34Recommend273CBC News
Foleyet is about 100 kilometres southwest of Timmins. (CBC)A Via Rail train has been quarantined in a small northern Ontario community Friday after one person died and several others reported feeling ill.

The train had been travelling from Vancouver to Toronto when it made its regular Friday morning stop in Foleyet, Ont. The town of 380 people is about 100 kilometres southwest of Timmins.

Via Rail spokeswoman Catherine Kaloutsky confirmed one person had died, but the cause of death isn't clear.

OPP Const. Marc Depatie said police first heard about the death around 9 a.m. ET. He said he believed the woman who died was in her 60s and had boarded the train in Jasper as part of a tour group. Depatie said there were reports she had flu-like symptoms when she boarded.

Depatie said seven other members of the group have reported feeling flu-like symptoms.

One person has been airlifted to Timmins and District Hospital and is in stable condition, said Steve Trenier, a spokesman for Timmins Emergency Medical Services.

Emergency response workers, including a doctor, are working inside the train, which was carrying 260 passengers and 30 crewmembers.

"Things are underway," said Trenier. "We're waiting for some further information."

'Lots of action' in town
Carol Woodhouse, who works in the town, told CBCNews.ca a medical helicopter, five ambulances and emergency workers were all at the railway station. OPP and CN vehicles had blocked off the road leading to the station.

"There's lots of action going on," she said.

Woodhouse said the air ambulance landed in a local baseball field where workers dressed in white suits and facemasks removed someone from the train.

"For a little town that usually has only two police officers, it's been very busy here," she said.

Dr. Allison McGeer, the director of infection control at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, said there could be many explanations for such symptoms, including influenza, food poisoning or environmental exposure.

While influenza has decreased in Western Canada, it is still active in Ontario, she said.

"There's bound to be a few of those people [on the train] who are ill," said McGeer.

She said Ontario's new infection control system means the results from specimens sent from the train will be available later Friday or Saturday.

"It's incredibly effective," she said.

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"We at VIA regret the circumstances of this event... ATTN: Passengers, sandwiches are available for $5.75"

Nothing worse than being stuck on a VIA train. rant


That's very funny. It was likely the sandwiches that caused the event.
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good catch
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[link to www.birdflubreakingnews.com]
How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
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shit, i'm on the route too. i live in saskatoon.

i'll let you guys know if any zombies start running around here.
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no. no. zombie's don't run. ur looking for zamzoomin!
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i would be alot more worried if it was a 30 year old who died on that train. not everyone in their sixties are healthy enough to fend off flus, especially the nasty one we had this year.

i see that they airlifted someone and they are 'stable' i bet they were just freaking out of their skulls. i know if i were on that train i would be all lemme out! lemme out!
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shit, i'm on the route too. i live in saskatoon.

i'll let you guys know if any zombies start running around here.



no. no. zombie's don't run. ur looking for zamzoomin!
5ai
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zamzoomin? lol. 'splain
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HA! Media is calling it the "death train". 1 death. In her 60s.

It's likely just food poisoning or a bad-ass flu. I remember on a trip I went on to Calgary with 12 others, 10 of us got so violently ill that we were in bed for 24 hrs. Then we drank lots of water and a few days later we were fine. No police were involved but this was pre 911 so it goes to show you how a U.S event impacted Canada as well.

Point being, I was physically drained after that much vomiting and I can't imagine too many 60 year old women doing very well under those conditions. Had she seen been taken to a hospital in time her chances of survival would have dramatically risen.






.......or it's a bio weapon that will eventually wipe out most or all species on earth.


But I still say it was flu or the VIA snacks. Gag. $7 for a dry chicken sandwich.
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shit, i'm on the route too. i live in saskatoon.

i'll let you guys know if any zombies start running around here.
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Please do as I live next to a grave yard. Dammit. Canadian Tire had blow torches and zombie hatchets on sale last week. Now I'm gonna have to pay regular price.
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shit, i'm on the route too. i live in saskatoon.

i'll let you guys know if any zombies start running around here.
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chuckle
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my brother lives right across the street from the cemetary here in saskatoon. i'll get him to report to me if he sees any unusual zombie like activity!
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Woman dies, several ill as cross-Canada train quarantined in N. Ontario
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FOLEYET, Ont. — A woman in her 60s has died and several others have fallen ill on a Via Rail passenger train that was halted in northern Ontario Friday morning while en route from Vancouver to Toronto.

Ambulances, police and a helicopter scrambled to the tiny hamlet of Foleyet after reports that as many as 10 passengers were suffering from flu-like symptoms.

Deborah DesRochers, chairwoman of the town of 380 located about 100 kilometres southwest of Timmins, said the scene was chaotic as emergency vehicles arrived on the scene.

"The whole place is being overrun with ambulances and police cars, and we've got helicopters," she said. "They've got the train quarantined. They're trying to isolate what it is."

Although police quarantined the train, which was carrying about 260 passengers and 30 crew members, at least one person was airlifted to the Timmins and District Hospital.

The victim is a woman in her 60s who boarded the train with a group of tourists in Jasper, Alta, said provincial police Const. Marc Depatie.

A spokeswoman for Via Rail said the train departed Vancouver three days ago and hadn't reported any problems before Friday.

Officials are still trying to determine exactly what caused the illnesses on the train and whether the lone fatality is at all related.

"We don't know if the element is viral or bacterial or a case of food poisoning," Depatie said.

The illnesses appeared to be contained to two train cars.

Not far from the town's train station is the Northern Lights Restaurant, which was jammed with residents like 53-year-old Leo DesRochers who stopped by to get a closer look at the scene.

"It's creating quite a bit of excitement, it's really rolling in here," he said of the mood in the bustling restaurant.

"There's lots of people standing around, lots of police, and they're handling it with white gloves. They're being pretty careful about it, saying we don't know what it is but we're being really cautious about it."

As the quarantine continued into the early afternoon, officials were booking nearby accommodations in case passengers needed to stay overnight.

The Air Ivanhoe lodge, just outside Foleyet, was completely booked to hold 40 or 50 people, said owner Jeanne Theriault.

It's not the first time the tiny town has been through this kind of event, said Theriault, who recalled a train derailment several years ago that resulted in a complete evacuation.

"I just remember I had every bed filled and every pillow stuffed and everybody using everything," she said.

Officials with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada said in a statement that they have been made aware of incident and are collaborating with provincial and regional counterparts to assess the situation and take action as appropriate.

Provincial spokeswoman Laurel Ostfield said emergency professionals are on the scene and local public health officials are engaged.

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no. no. zombie's don't run. ur looking for zamzoomin!

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If it was something released on the train, then I would think there would be more than just 10 people with symptoms. Sounds more viral to me.


Perhaps, but 10 people also don't instantly get flu like symptoms all at the same time as well. Some people have a higher chemical sensitivity than others which could explain the symptoms in some and not in others. I don't know but I do know I am not falling for the flu explanation. There is such thing as incubation time to consider in a viral case.

They were on that train together for a couple days. Long enough time to catch something viral.
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Again, I disagree, a couple of days you can catch the virus but you are asymptomatic, contagious yes but not presenting symptoms until a week to ten days later not 2 days. This tells me either something was released OR they all just convientenly caught the same exact virus at the same exact moment in time and THEN got on the SAME train.
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my vote goes to test run for tptb.
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If it was something released on the train, then I would think there would be more than just 10 people with symptoms. Sounds more viral to me.


Perhaps, but 10 people also don't instantly get flu like symptoms all at the same time as well. Some people have a higher chemical sensitivity than others which could explain the symptoms in some and not in others. I don't know but I do know I am not falling for the flu explanation. There is such thing as incubation time to consider in a viral case.

They were on that train together for a couple days. Long enough time to catch something viral.

Again, I disagree, a couple of days you can catch the virus but you are asymptomatic, contagious yes but not presenting symptoms until a week to ten days later not 2 days. This tells me either something was released OR they all just convientenly caught the same exact virus at the same exact moment in time and THEN got on the SAME train.
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2 days is more than enough time for any number of nasty flus to work their way from host to host AND display symptoms.
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I wonder how many got off at other stops - could get interesting but I'll bet it was food service - have you ever had a Canadian Hot dog ? yikes !
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If it was something released on the train, then I would think there would be more than just 10 people with symptoms. Sounds more viral to me.


Perhaps, but 10 people also don't instantly get flu like symptoms all at the same time as well. Some people have a higher chemical sensitivity than others which could explain the symptoms in some and not in others. I don't know but I do know I am not falling for the flu explanation. There is such thing as incubation time to consider in a viral case.

They were on that train together for a couple days. Long enough time to catch something viral.

Again, I disagree, a couple of days you can catch the virus but you are asymptomatic, contagious yes but not presenting symptoms until a week to ten days later not 2 days. This tells me either something was released OR they all just convientenly caught the same exact virus at the same exact moment in time and THEN got on the SAME train.


2 days is more than enough time for any number of nasty flus to work their way from host to host AND display symptoms.
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that's very not true

the incubation period is from 2-5 days which means you'll START showing symptoms 3-6 days from the day you are infected

and the first day is not typically the worst, the first day is when you notice, man i feel like crap and am running a bit of fever
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Don't forget in the MSM just the other day they came out with report about "who to let die" in case of pandemic (or other disaster).
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This article was just added 02:31 PM ... interesing.

Whatever is going on, it is very, VERY suspicious !!!

This reminds me of research I did back during the post9-11 Anthrax scare. Especially books like "The Bioweaponeers" and also the U.S. Congressional testimony of Soviet Bioweapons Scientist, Ken Alibek.

Look folks, according to many experts easy to find online, this scenario happening right now in Canada is exactly the way an aerosolized Bio-Chem weapon would play out - not your ordinary sequence of events with illness onset and presentation of symptoms. And beware ----> if this is the true situation, then the ptb will pull all sorts of shenigans so as to keep such facts covered up in whatever ways are possible!

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May 09, 2008 02:31 PM
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An air ambulance waits near the train station in Foleyet in northern Ontario after a Via Rail train was stopped and quarantined.

In photos: Quarantined train Vancouver-Toronto train route May 09, 2008 02:31 PM

Tanya Talaga / STAFF REPORTER

The mystery illness that claimed the life of one 60-year-old woman and quarantined passengers on a Via train sitting in a remote Northern Ontario town could be anything from influenza, the Norwalk virus, anxiety or even some sort of exposure from a faulty air conditioning unit, medical experts say.

Ten other were taken ill, with one of them taken by air ambulance to hospital in Timmins suffering flu-like symptoms. The passengers were aboard a Toronto-bound train carrying 264 people. The train stopped at Foleyet, a small town northwest of Sudbury at about 8:35 a.m. after CN Rail was informed that a woman had died.

"The thing that makes influenza more likely is that someone has died," said Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital. "My guess is at this time of year Via trains are mostly taken by retired people and in an older population things will happen. You don't know what chronic illnesses she had."

All the people who became sick boarded the same two cars in Jasper, Alta. The train was due to arrive in Toronto tonight at 8 p.m.

Emergency teams in full, protective bio-hazard gear reportedly boarded the quarantined trains to tend to the passengers on board the train which is stopped in Foleyet, northwest of Sudbury.

Dr. Donald Low, the medical director of Ontario's public health lab, said he doesn't believe an exotic disease such as SARS or avian flu is responsible.

"It doesn't fit the profile because of the explosive nature of this event," said Low, who helped co-ordinate efforts to contain Toronto's SARS outbreak.

Low said food poisoning isn't likely either because it "usually doesn't kill you" and that is associated with gastrointestinal problems and diarrhea.

He agreed with McGeer in saying early indications suggest that influenza may be the cause.

The longer we go without hearing any specifics the more likely it is to be nothing, McGeer added. "It could be food poisoning, it could be Norwalk, it could be influenza or any of the other respiratory illnesses," she said. "It could theoretically be some exposure on the train, something went wrong with their air conditioning system and people got irritated airways."

Norwalk is a highly contagious gastro-intestinal illness that comes on fast and leaves people vomiting and with severe diarrhea for about two days. The virus usually makes headlines when it causes outbreaks in hospitals, day-cares and even cruise ships.

"This could be some poor person with cardiac disease or somebody who got pneumonia or some other completely non-communicable illness who had the misfortune to die on the train," she said.

During the SARS crisis in 2003 that left 44 dead in Ontario a 747 plane going to San Francisco was grounded and it turned out to be absolutely nothing.

After SARS, Ontario has worked hard to come up with rapid response plans in the face of a public health disaster, said McGeer, who was one of the lead physicians fighting Toronto's outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. She added that even if this incident turns out to be nothing, the purpose of the things is trying to build is the ability to respond rapidly and appropriately," she said. "It certainly looks like people got notified and there are the appropriate people on the ground."

Timmins has a regional health lab with the capacity to quickly discover if this is a viral illness because of the Ontario Public Health Laboratories -- headed up by Dr. Don Low. "They have regional labs across the province, they've been working really hard at developing diagnostic capacity for outbreak illnesses," she said. "They are all linked."

The slowest part of the operation will be moving the viral specimens from where the train is stopped to Timmins. "This is the logistics of dealing with quarantine issues and dealing with everything at the same time. This will probably be the hardest part of the operation."

Low said he will know more when the public health lab in Toronto gets specimens from the health lab in Timmins, likely within the next 24 hours.
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05/09/2008 03:29 PM
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Re: WHATS GOING ON THE CANADA? DEATH FLU LIKE
Fucking hell, Somebody shit in the stew.
Sireen-reborn

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05/09/2008 03:32 PM
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Canada is too close for comfort if you ask me!

It may not be a killer pandemic in the making....this time. But you can bet your arses, it's coming.
anything after 'but' is bullshit!

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05/09/2008 03:32 PM
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just fyi...

was just on msnbc.com and clicked the link about all this and it took me to a "file not found" page
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05/09/2008 03:37 PM
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Did all 10 of these people BECOME sick on the train en route, or were they sick prior to boarding?
anything after 'but' is bullshit!

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