http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5268860/Swine-flu-the-worst-is-yet-to-come-in-autumn-warns-Alan-Johnson.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/21/us/genetic-material-of-virus-from-1918-flu-is-found.html
One part of the answer is that the Spanish flu virus passed from birds to pigs and then to humans, a mode of transmission that is thought to produce the most dangerous strains of influenza viruses.
1918 killer flu secrets revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3455873.stm
"The virus caused three waves of disease. The second of these, between September and December 1918, resulting in the heaviest loss of life...Although most people who were infected with the virus recovered within a week following bed rest, some died within 24 hours of infection."
[Spanish] Flu victim exhumed after 85 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3446389.stm
Lethal secrets of 1918 flu virus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6271833.stm
The preserved body of a flu victim buried in Arctic permafrost was exhumed, and they painstakingly extracted the genetic material needed to work out the structure of the H1N1 virus.
Then, in a maximum "biosafety" facility at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory they reconstructed a fully functioning virus, and infected macaque monkeys to see what would happen......
"This research provides an important piece in the puzzle of the 1918 virus, helping us to better understand influenza viruses and their potential to cause pandemics."
H1N1 Flu. A Tale of Evolution, Economics, Power Politics and International Law.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread460552/pg1
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Swine flu tzar
06.05.2009 11:44
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8035121.stm
I don't remember a Bird Flu Tzar in the UK
Al
Smithfield and Weight Watchers
06.05.2009 11:50
Danny
Homepage: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/business/global/06smithfield.html
Not 'swine flu'........
06.05.2009 12:26
qwerty
Its Snaflu s.n.a.f.u, we need demos& leafletting at local factory pig farms
06.05.2009 13:29
Meanwhile back at WHO chief& home economics Doctor "I eat chicken 2nite"Chan isnt minding the millions who could die,we can rest assured she is protecting the pork scratching market& drug patents for Roche-rumsfeld
Green syndicalist
Donald Rumsfeld's Swine Flu Vaccine "Tamiflu" Could Paralyze or Kill You, While
06.05.2009 15:18
http://upswing.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/26/2735113-donald-rumsfelds-swine-flu-vaccine-tamiflu-could-paralyze-or-kill-you-while-it-makes-investors-rich
non believer
Leave it out
06.05.2009 19:20
Lets all rush to the doctors to get a jab and make some unscrupulous drug company loads of dosh. For fucks sake see it for what it is.
More bollocks to keep us a useless bunch of jibbering wrecks.
dodge
Listen to this
06.05.2009 21:35
http://takingaimradio.com/mp3/takingaim090428.mp3
Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone
Taking Aim
http://takingaimradio.com/
Chris
Maya and Ralph
07.05.2009 12:01
Maya and Ralph are wrong on so many counts in the opening 5 minutes that I had to skip through the rest of the hour. For a start, a human has infected a pig. Secondly, there is only one farm suspected, the Smithfield one. So Ralph and Maya extrapolate this is some sort of population control, because the Mexican Dept of Agriculture found no sick pigs on the farm. I can think of a much more likely explanation for that, since it's in the interest of both the farm and the Dept of Agriculture not to find any sick pigs and since we know Smithfield operate by buying local and national politicians. We also know all of their pigs are effectively dying from their conditions and are only kept alive to slaughter by massive amounts of drugs. The farm has a million pigs - how many do you think were tested when the Mexicans weren't even testing humans? How many could be disposed of at short notice without being noticed?
To display such unquestioning trust in the ethicacy of the Dept of Agriculture and the Smithfield corporation and then build on that false trust to imply a deliberate bio-campaign is frankly illogical. So with respect to Maya and Ralph, their body of work and their political opinions, they are starting out from a wrong hypothesis and simply distract from the genuine problem.
Before anyone listens to that MP3 they should read this article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17077-flu-outbreak-the-pig-connection.html
Did this virus come from pigs, or not?
Ultimately, yes. As New Scientist pointed out last, H1N1 clearly belongs to a class of viruses called "triple reassortants", which have circulated widely as the predominant flu viruses in North American pigs since 1998.
Danny