Mexican swine flu outbreak kills 29, infects nearly 1,500

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Mexican swine flu outbreak kills 29, infects nearly 1,500

2012-01-28 22:22:24 GMT+7 (ICT)

MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands more are also ill as the country faces several types of flu this season.

Since the start of the ongoing winter season, at least 7,069 people have reported suffering from symptoms similar to those of swine flu. Lab tests are still underway and have so far confirmed 1,456 cases of the disease, which is officially known as A/H1N1.

According to Mexico's Health Ministry (SSA), at least twenty-nine people have died of swine flu so far this season. While no health emergency has been declared, officials expect the death toll will rise in the coming weeks as Mexico also faces A/H3N2 and B influenza.

The H1N1 influenza virus emerged in the Mexican state of Veracruz in April 2009 and quickly spread around the world, causing the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global flu pandemic in June 2009. At least 18,000 people have died of the disease since, although the actual number is believed to be far higher.

In August 2010, the WHO declared that the swine flu pandemic was over. "In the post-pandemic period, influenza disease activity will have returned to levels normally seen for seasonal influenza," the WHO said at the time. "It is expected that the pandemic virus will behave as a seasonal influenza A virus."

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[nickgonewalkabout]

Dear Balls: can't confirm this but appears to be swine-flu here in central Isaan. Local pigs and dogs are dying as of March 2012. People are ill with an unspecified but sometimes severe respiratory illness. Can't get specifics.

Could Isaan have an H(?) N1 variant on the loose?.

Vaccines contain trace amounts of Mercury, an unhealthy load (even in trace amounts) for anyone to carry. I can't get a list of ingredients for the current vaccines recommended by the USA CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) or the WHO (World Health Organisation), and since there are moves to ban mercury in vaccines in California there might be forward movement in issuing non-toxic vaccines elsewhere. However I wouldn't recommend shipments to less developed nations until they include ingredients and preservatives of a more benign nature. There might be a case for silver. Lack of transparency in terms of medical details creates an unfortunate track record, and with the Georgia Guidestones in-place (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones) we cannot reassure ourselves in traditional symbols of authority. Moreover, we do not have a choice regarding the quality of injected product. My child for instance here in Thailand and the standard Thai-Japanese Encepalitis shot contains Thimerosol. It appears even California cannot obtain a mercury-free substitute at this time.

Mexican Swine Flu comes from a factory-farm. Specifically La Gloria pig farm. Picture a Dickensian image of children playing around factory-size cess-pools of effluent from tens (perhaps hundreds) of thousands of pigs 'reared' for the American pork market. Spreading illness therefrom to family, friends, and shortly the world. The World Health Organisation know this, but appear to pass on a genuine response. Pills produced in the USA offered by Donald Rumsfeldt's protege companies fail to offer much than profit from crisis.

So good-luck, and don't let Swine Flu fuc_k-up the taste of your chips. Thailand being a diverse international cross-roads is likely first in the international firing-line in terms of vaccines. No doubt the trade costs millions.

Clearly there is a broad and lucrative opportunity for

'natural' alternatives available worldwide, since the major industrialists have their head so deep in the black book rather than the white. So, Ballz, informed as you are from the seat of your communication empire, psst, pass-it-on to someone with a good heart and big aspirations.

[chuckd]

Is it just Rumsfeld that is responsible for swine flu or the entire Bush Administration?

[Scott]

I sincerely hope that's not a serious question and I sincerely hope that it doesn't generate a response.