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| Entering the General Hospital in Mexico City |
Mexican officials, scrambling to control a swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 16 people and possibly dozens more in recent weeks, shuttered schools from kindergarten to university for millions of young people in and around the capital on Friday and urged people with flu symptoms to stay home from work.
”We’re dealing with a new flu virus that constitutes a respiratory epidemic that so far is controllable,” Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told reporters late Thursday, after huddling with President Felipe Calderón and other top officials. He said the virus had mutated from pigs and had at some point been transmitted to humans.
Mexico’s flu season is usually over by now, but health officials have noticed a significant spike in flu cases. The World Health Organization reported about 800 cases of flu-like symptoms in Mexico in recent weeks, most of them among healthy young adults, with 57 deaths in Mexico City and 3 in the central part of the country. Mexican officials confirmed 16 deaths from swine flu, and said another 45 were under investigation…
The WHO and the CDC now consider all 60 deaths as likely swine flu.
Health officials in the United States were working to determine whether the Mexican outbreak was tied to the unusual strain of swine flu that has been circulating among people in the American Southwest but is not known to have caused any deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency, which has found only seven cases in the United States, expects to find more now that it has begun looking intensively for them…
Dr. Cox of the disease control center said officials did not yet know whether the flu shot this year protected against the new swine strain.
Well, I had my flu shot and I’m still nervous. 
Could it be that these outbreaks occur where birth control is most desperately needed?
Naw. Surely not. Never mind.
further..in my opinion…
all in all the method to overcome any infection
of this sort was rediscovered in 1990 at Albert Einstein Medical Center in NY, -in the form of bio-electric medicine.
while the method proposed required something akin to a dialysis machine or implantable device similar to a pacemaker to work, in later years it was realized a relatively simple in vivo (non-invasive) approach with what amounts to about $30-$50 of electronics was equally effective.
of course, a solution this cheap and easy is counter to the way we do business currently.
have look at patent #5188738
http://google.com/patents?id=k1YdAAAAEBAJ&dq=5188738
small snippet from the abstract:
“electric field forces of appropriate electric field strength to provide electric current flow through the blood or other body fluids at a magnitude that is biologically compatible but is sufficient to render the bacteria, virus, parasites and/or fungus ineffective to infect or affect normally healthy cells while maintaining the biological usefulness of the blood or other fluids”
just read the abstract and the “background problem”
on page 8 to understand how it works. it’s plain english for the most part.
my way of understanding it is that it works on economy of scale. since bacteria and especially viruses are hundreds to thousands time smaller than human cells on average, the amount of electrical current needed to disable them is equally smaller
than that which would effect or disable effects human cells. (a few milliamps in-vivo)
anyway, have a look at the patent, do your own research, learn the method and precautions to take and make your own device if you care to. just note, the first time you use it, you will experience about two days of moderate to heavy flu symptoms from mass die-off of resident bugs.
-after that, you’ll feel energized to say the least.
-s
Nothing to worry about here in the good ole US. Our President is all over this one. Our border is secure, our Homeland Security cops have a new gruppenfurher, immigration is stringently monitored and regulated, and no Mexicans can enter without a clean bill of health, much like my grandparents when they came through Ellis Island with my father at age 11. Yessiree. Our country spares no effort to safeguard our healthy population, despite those liberals who assert we have an obligation to allow the whole third world into our country… Uh. Wait a second.. Oh, nevermind. Just a passing thought… Yessiree. Don’t worry. You have no reason to fear illegal immigrants. They are only an asset to our valuable “rich diversity” which we keep hearing about.
LOL some people are so ignorant. If it hadnt originated in mexico no one would have said anything about immigration. Anyway even if we did have safe borders we can’t stop this from spreading becuase of international travel and things of this nature. They say it is possible 60 people died from this as well it has been stated that 1000 people are infected thats less than .1% mortality rate although this may not go down in history as horrible, this is regarding my undetailed analysis, it will still be tragic for the family of those infected.
#24
a 1% mortality rate is huge if it affects 30% of the world’s population. Numbers game…
However, the problem is the age group that died…20-45, not the normal death group (usually the very young and very old). That’s the rub.
And, remember, I believe it’s the MATH of this that is so troubling. If this were an outbreak in a low population area, it wouldn’t be an issue. However, we’re speaking of an outbreak in Mexico City, a population of 22million people, and to the north is the San Diego/Los Angeles area a population of about 17million, to the South (Brazil) is one of the most densely populated areas on earth (191million). The virus just spreading to Greater North America (528million) and South America (382million) would be quite a death toll if it just remained at 1%.
Don’t discount it because of either it’s evident source, OR the small ratio of death, to date. 1% is nothing to sneeze at. (Pun intended).
#24 Yea. I’m just ignorant. Diseased people sneaking into the US is a good thing.
(Satirical) Economic Angle
Economy down? Scare us and we will consume. This is a world recession. The world comes together to force mass consumption and economic prosperity.
Problem solved.
wow, how did this spread all the way to NYC so fast? That reminds me, I think now would be a good time to increase my daily dosage of Vitamin C and any other kind of immune system booster I can find
-masks will not prevent influenza, not fine enough for viruses (moist masks do nothing at all)
-quarantine will not help, there may be silent cases, or carrier animals (birds, pigs, whales)
-hand washing will do little as this is tx by respiratory, although it would be helpful to know how long it can last on the hands. “bird flu” can last in duck poo for 90 days!
-What will work is a good vaccine in large enough doses to immunize the population. Not easy to do.
Looks like I’m wrong. It did originate in Mexico, but on an AMERICAN owned pig farm there.
So did you hear about the sine flu? I heard it derives itself from the negative cosine flu.
Wait. You said swine flu? My apologies.
This looks like it’s a lab created animal. There are some crackpot websites reporting it. Normally, I would call bullshit. But it has all the characteristics of a lab produced virus. Most of the infected have no exposure to pigs. This is brand new virus with characteristics of swine, avian, and human influenza. What really tipped me off is how hard they are pushing the Tamiflu. The financial insiders are already estimating Roche is going to make a killing.
Has anyone been tracking the spread of swine flu on this website http://www.swine-flu-tracker.com/? It seems every time I check it the swine flu spreads.