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NEW SWINE FLU MUTATION 'FAR MORE DEADLY'

 
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NEW SWINE FLU MUTATION 'FAR MORE DEADLY'
[link to www.express.co.uk]

NEW SWINE FLU MUTATION 'FAR MORE DEADLY'



SWINE flu has been discovered in birds, prompting fears that a more dangerous and easily transmitted strain will emerge.

Health experts last night confirmed that the H1N1 pig flu virus has infected turkeys. It is the first case of H1N1 in birds.

Scientists warned the ­outbreak in poultry could lead to a deadly flu outbreak if it mixes with lethal avian flu.

Tests have shown sick turkeys at two farms in Chile were struck down with the swine flu virus that has caused a pandemic in humans.

Britain’s leading flu expert, ­Professor John Oxford, said: “The last thing we want is a universal virus that goes everywhere.

“The avian flu virus is embedded in birds in Egypt and south-east Asia and this outbreak could easily hop across and mix with this, increasing the risk of the swine flu virus mixing with avian flu which is more dangerous.”

Experts with the United Nations in Rome and the US Centre for ­Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are now monitoring the outbreak in turkeys, which has so far caused only relatively mild symptoms in the birds.
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‘The last thing we want is a universal virus that goes everywhere... risk of mixing is dangerous’
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Mr Oxford, Professor of Virology at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospital, said this meant cases could be missed.

“It is unsettling that the animals are not dying as this means it is harder to detect. If you don’t ­recognise the danger you are not likely to take action.” The Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organisation also warned that the virus could become more potent.

A statement said: “The current H1N1 virus strain is a mixture of human, pig and bird genes and has proved to be very contagious but no more deadly than common ­seasonal flu viruses. However, it could become more dangerous if it adds virulence by combining with H5N1, commonly known as avian flu, which is far more deadly but harder to pass along among humans.”

Last week Britain accepted its first batches of swine flu vaccine, as the Government began to arm itself against a second wave of the ­pandemic in winter.

The World Health Organisation has been warning governments for months to prepare for a resurgence of the virus in the winter.

The doses arrived as millions of schoolchildren prepared to return to school in the next two weeks, with concerns that the virus could spread easily between classrooms.

A Health Department spokeswoman said the vaccine was ­delivered by US pharmaceutical company Baxter and it could be approved for public distribution by early October.

The vaccine will initially be used on at-risk groups, such as people with asthma and diabetes, officials said. Pregnant women, health workers and people with ­underlying health problems will get the ­vaccines before the rest of the ­population.

Britain is the European country hardest hit by the virus. So far 66 people have died
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Reaction to a miscalculation.

"They" thought a 3-way spliced virus would do it but man's immune system was able to handle it.

Maybe this new one is a four-way, ten-way or whatever to overpower nearly anyones system.

Can you imagine how ticked "they" were when "their" plot crashed and burned like it did?

You have been warned, you "theys", there may be some push back the next time, not just comical passive defeating like last year. "Make my day, punk, how lucky do you feel"
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ruhroh is it time to get naked and cover ourselfs in baby powder?
Dozens of them. Armed to the teeth. I'm outnumbered. Outgunned. But the alley is crooked, dark, and very narrow. They can't surround me. Sometimes you can beat the odds with a careful choice of where to fight.



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Total Number of Expected Deaths 1.7 Million in the USA.
Predicting the total number of deaths in a pandemic would seem to be an easy thing to do assuming you know two things: the clinical attack rate (CAR) and the case fatality rate (CFR). The first number tells you what percent of the people are sick with the virus, the second tells you what percent of these people will die. One might think that it would be possible to simply multiply the CAR by the total population and then multiply that number by the CFR to get the total number of expected deaths. However, as I pointed out in my previous blog about CFR, this number varies depending on the age of the person. So, it is necessary to calculate the expected number of deaths for each age group separately and then add them together to get the total number of expected deaths.

The CAR can also vary by age group. In a normal flu season, the CAR for children is much higher than for adults. This is thought to be due to partial immunity of at least some of the adults due to past exposure to related flu strains. However, during a pandemic, no-one (except perhaps the very old) will have any immunity to the novel virus. Thus, it is assumed that the CAR will be more similar across age groups. For the calculations below, I will assume a CAR of 30% for all age groups.

The CFR used for the calculations below come from the CDC Director’s brief that was apparently leaked and uploaded to Cryptome.

The table below contains the following information: age; number of people in the cohort (in the US); number of expected clinically ill people; CFR; expected number dead in cohort.

•0 – 4 years old; 21,005,852; 6,301,756; o.17%; 10,712.
•5 – 24 years old; 82,693,215; 24,807,964; 0.22%; 54,578.
•25 – 49 years old; 106,312,569; 31,893,771; 1.5%; 478,406.
•50 – 63 years old; 55,178,372; 16,553,523; 3.33%; 551,232.
•65+; 38,869,716; 11,660,915; 5.24%; 611,031.
Total expected dead: 1,705,961.

This number obviously indicates a potential severe pandemic. Also, note that most of the dead would be expected to be under the age of 65.

The numbers presented here assume an unmitigated pandemic. There are several interventions that have the potential to bring them down. First, a well-matched vaccine in sufficient quantities to vaccinate most Americans would be expected to reduce these numbers considerably. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that such a vaccine will be available before the next large wave of infections begins in the United States. Tamiflu has been very effective in decreasing deaths if given within 48 hours of infection. However, since most testing for the new H1N1 virus has stopped, fewer and fewer people in the US are receiving Tamiflu within the recommended time period. Finally, closing schools greatly diminishes the CAR. This is especially effective in reducing deaths because flu normally spreads first among children (in schools), then to teachers, parents and other middle-aged people and finally to the elderly. By breaking the chain of transmission early in this process, closing schools has the potential to greatly reduce the number of deaths. Unfortunately, the CDC is strongly opposed to closing schools. Schools are already starting to open in the US. Thus, the cycle of infection will begin shortly.

We have some Tamiflu, which some people will get. There will be some vaccine at some point for some people. At some point, schools will close either due to parental concern or because of overflowing ICUs. Thus, I do not expect that we will see the total number of deaths projected in the table above. However, it is disappointing that the one intervention which could save many lives, keeping schools closed, is being taken off the table by the agency which has access to the same numbers used in my calculations, the CDC.

What are they thinking?
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Mercury in the Vaccine will kill the Swine flu.+++You.
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its almost surreal you know
every day a new headline
fear fear fear
i have 4 kids what am i supposed to do
as far as i know they are going to madate it at their schools

at my office we have a health and safety guy that arranges the flu shots every year...

i confronted him with my suspicions and fears and he laughed them off as complete nonsense and said the doctors that are saying they wont be taking or administering the vaccine are the same ones that dont believe in washing their hands between seeing patients.. wtf??

i said well i want to see you take the jab first before any of us.

i still don't know what to do, and if i can even stop them from jabbing the kids at school or if i should..

feel pretty powerless and resigned to fate...

seems real suspicious though .. the media coverage etc... and it almost seems like someone is 'tuning' the virus..

the four horsemen

war, famine, plague, pestilence...

looks like they are all here..
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more destruction of food? Horrible!
^^ gravity is a harsh reality. ^^
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THIS IS PROPAGANDA. The UK press is the worst when it comes to pushing the NWO agenda. Yes, that's right - even worse than MSNBC, lol.

This flu-terror is as manufactured as Pamala Anderson's tits.





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