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DR. ARCHIE KALOKERINOS

Interview---- International Vaccine Newsletter June 1995

It is hardly necessary to introduce Dr. Kalokerinos. He is well known worldwide as the doctor who spent much of his time fighting for the wellbeing of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia. He is so much appreciated for his work and for his engagements that many, lovingly, call him ‘Archie’ He wrote down his experiences in the masterpiece "Every Second Child". Instead of being rewarded for doing so, he was harrassed and his methods were disregarded by the authorities, probably because they were too simple, too cheap and too efficacious to fit modem medical standards.

And, besides, they were meant to protect a population which, in its own native county, is regarded by some as not worth taking the trouble for anyway. Dr. Kalokerinos thought differently. He pinpointed the increase in vaccination campaigns as the reason why, at a certain point, up to half of the vaccinated Aboriginal infants died, obviously from an acute vitamin C deficiency provoked by the vaccination.

IVN: Dr. Kalokerinos you started off as a convinced vaccinator when you were working with the Aboriginees, but then things happened. What have been your experiences with vaccinations?

Kalokerinos: At first it was just a simple clinical observation. I observed that many infants, after they received routine vaccines like tetanus, diptheria, polio, whooping cough or whatever, became ill. Some became extremely ill, and in fact some died. It was an observation, It was not a theory. So my first reaction was to look at the reasons why this happened. Of course I found it was more likely to happen in infants who were ill at the time of receiving a vaccine, or infants who had been ill recently, or infants who were incubating an infection. Of course in the early stages of incubation there is no way whatsoever that anyone can detect the disease. They turn up later on. Furthermore, some of the reactions to the vaccines were not those that were listed in the standard literature.

They were very strange reactions indeed. A third observation was that with some of these reactions which normally resulted in death I found that I could reverse them by giving large amounts of vitamin C intramuscularly or intravenously. One would have expected, of course, that the authorities would take an interest in these observations that resulted in a dramatic drop in the death rate of infants in the area under my control, a very dramatic drop.

But instead of taking an interest their reaction was one of extreme hostility. This forced me to look into the question of vaccination further, and the further I looked into it the more shocked I became. I found that the whole vaccine business was indeed a gigantic hoax. Most doctors are convinced that they are useful, but if you look at the proper statistics and study the instance of these diseases you will realise that this is not so.

I think the most obvious example of the harm that vaccines can do is demonstrated by what happened in 75-76. I received a phone call from a politician who was elected to a position where he had some responsibility for Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory. This man had, in fact, been a patient of mine. He was concerned because the infant death rate in the Northern Territory had doubled in one year, and looked as if it was going to double again. There was no obvious explanation.

I knew the Northern Territory fairly well, in fact I had walked over a lot of it, and could not see how this could be explained. I thought about it a lot, and as I traveled around the world I talked to people about it and asked questions and looked for advice. I came back to Australia and I went out to visit my mother, and staying with my mother at the time was my youngest brother who was a medical student, and he had with him a fellow medical student. I sat down with them and discussed the problem again, and I went through every factor that I new that could be responsible for making a child sick and resulting in a death.

And one of the things that I did know a little bit about, not a lot then but I had some experience, was the fact that under certain circumstances these vaccines could be very dangerous. And I didn’t mention it. And when I finished I went into my car and I drove towards the city where I was staying at a hotel. Halfway there it just hit me like a bomb. When this politician rang me up he said in an endeavor to improve the Aboriginal mortality we stepped up the vaccination campaigns. And that is what had done it.

They were actually immunising sick kids. The next day I took off by plane to go to the Northern Territory and I was excited by the realisation that at last I had the answer to the problem, but I was naturally concerned because I did not know how to communicate it. Well I went to the Northern Territory. No one would listen to it I was regarded as a total utter redbag. But I found that they were visiting the reservations, the outlying camps of Aboriginees in the desert, and if for some reason a mother didn’t want her child to be vaccinated they would simply grab the child and forcibly vaccinate it. I saw them chasing them on foot, and chasing them in Landrovers and grabbing the kids and vaccinating them.

Now, a lot of these kids were terribly sick. They were malnourished and everything else. And if they survived the first vaccine, In a few weeks they would come back with booster shots. And then with more and more, and then they would come around with polio shots and so forth. It is a wonder that any kid survived really, not that the death rate had just doubled. It is a wonder that any one survived. So it was a pretty grim sort of situation, and it has never really been fully corrected.

The other thing of interest is that in 1977-78 there was an epidemic of a very peculiar disease in Naples, Italy. They called it the dark disease of Naples where infants and children would suddenly become unconscious without any special reason and autopsies would not really reveal a cause. Now this was just the sort of trouble I saw amongst Aboriginees.

So, to make a long story short I went over with a "60 minute" television team, and we found that two thirds of the infants and children had upper respiratory tract infections, but one third of them had just been recently vaccinated with triple antigen including whooping cough vaccine. So my advice to the Italian doctors was to give the children vitamin C intravenously and to stop using the whooping cough vaccine. It was a peculiar situation because they would never admit as to whether or not they had given them the vitamin C.

But I do know that they stopped using the whooping cough vaccine, because parents that I spoke to from Italy over the next four, five or even ten years told me that they could not obtain triple antigen for their children. They could only get the diphtheria and tetanus portion of the vaccine. This terrible, strange disorder has never recurred since I so there was a connection.

Perhaps the most infamous connection was when I was working up in the Gulf country of Australia and Cape York in 1976 and I observed in some Aboriginal communities where the Health department came around and vaccinated them against a particular brand of flu, that a lot of them just dropped dead shortly after receiving the vaccine. And I went to Alman, a man who was in his early twenties and I flew the bodies across to Cairns at the coast where the autopsies were performed, and apparently they had had heart attacks.

And I had some further experiences in Townshall, a few weeks later, particularly with diabetics. Now it was strange that I was the only doctor in the whole of bloody Australia that recognised this combination of events, and yet it was happening all over Australia. But this is fairly typical of my work really that other doctors for some reason seemed to go around with their heads in the sand...IVN: ... and there is plenty of sand in Australia...

Kalokerlnos: Plenty! A few months later I was in America when President Ford was about to vaccinate the entire population of America, every man, woman and child, black, white and brindle against swine flu, because some idiot had told him there was going to be a massive epidemic that was going to kill millions of people. And my views received considerable publicity. In fact I ended up appearing on Catty Cosby’s television program, and I said it would be mass murder and I specifically described how people who had heart problems could drop dead.

There was a man watching the programme in New York who did not like a particular gentleman by the name of Gambino. Gambino was 69 years old and a mafia boss. He thought this is a great idea. So he got someone to persuade Gambino to have his flu shot and Gambino promptly dropped dead. The heading of the newspapers went something like "Mafia flu jab conspiracy". It was fairly obvious that the person who advised Gambino knew what would happen or was hoping that Gambino would drop dead. It caused a hell of a row.

But President Ford said "I’ll settle all this", and he called a special news conference and in front of the whole of America rolled up his sleeve and had his shot Now there is no doubt he did not have swine flu vaccine. They would not have given it to him, no way! But then he invited all the news media people that were there to line up and have theirs. Only one man volunteered and he was the White House press secretary, the rest refused to have it. And of course the other part of the story, which is history now, is that people started to sue or drop dead in the buildings where they had received their injections. There have been several huge settlements, I think they are still going on now, haven’t finally been settled yet. President Ford passed a special act in Congress so that you couldn’t sue the manufacturers of the vaccine, you had to sue through the government.

So that was another thing. But I think the most serious event was really in the early seventies. I was in London and I heard they were going to vaccinate all the children of Africa against measles and the entire black population against smallpox. I knew the way they would carry out these campaigns and I knew that they would not use clean needles. I went to the BBC in London and tried to get on a programme with my views but of course they would not do it. And what I forecast happened.

They did use dirty needles, they spread viral infections from one person to another and they continued to spread these viral infections in the vaccination needles for years. And of course that is how AIDS spread so rapidly in Africa. AIDS did not spread so rapidly in the black population of Africa simply because truck drivers were having sex with prostitutes and then giving it to their wives. Certainly that happened, but it did not explain the explosive outbreak of AIDS. AIDS was carried by dirty needles.

I will tell the story how I read the 1993 special edition of Scientific American. It is a prestigious scientific journal. September 1993 - a special edition on Immunology. There is a leading article in that journal about sir Gustav Nossal the famous Australian so called medical authority. He says what a wonderful thing these vaccines are in third world countries, because the kids no longer die from polio or diphteria. And to illustrate his point he has got a full colour page photograph of a Nigerian infant being vaccinated, and you would not believe it, using a non-disposable needle! This is in a country where the incidence of AIDS is terribly high, hepatitis B and you name it...

There is no way you can sterilise these needles efficiently in practice. If I did that that sort of procedure at home in Australia I would be instantly deregistered and probably even jailed. Now why the ... (I was going to swear because it really makes me angry) are they allowing to continue this sort of practise in places like Africa just because they are blacks. I wrote a letter to several sources after reading that article and I said it was murder and genocide. And it is, but no one would print it.

Now this is the worst state of affairs in this vaccine business today, where in Africa they are still using non-disposable needles for the vaccines. Now I ask you a simple question: would you go to Africa and receive a vaccine under those conditions? You would have to be off your head! I saw one patient who was touring around Africa and there was an epidemic of some sort of disease. They advised him to be vaccinated, so he was vaccinated. They used a dirty needle and gave him AIDS. He did not know he had it, came home and gave it to his wife and they are both dead! White Australians. Now, I don’t know what people are going to do but I think if we tolerate this sort of situation in Africa then we are guilty of some pretty terrible crime against humanity.

IVN: Are you suggesting that if they use clean, disposable needles there is not so much of a problem?

Kalokerinos: Well, of course, at least they would not be spreading disease in that fashion. I do not think they should vaccinate the kids anyway, and I can show some slides about measles and how they misrepresented the situation in Africa. You cannot immunise sick children, malnourished children, and expect to get away with it. You’ll kill far more children than would have died from the natural infection. There are other ways to deal with things like measles. If they gave them intramuscular or perhaps intravenous injections of vitamin C and a bit of other nutritional support then you can virtually forget about nine tenths of your problems.

I would not say all of them because a lot of these kids are so sick and so malnourished, I mean, they are like vegetables and nothing is going to save them, let us face up to it. But the ordinary child who gets measles, even the child with a moderate degree of malnutrition and so forth, if you give intravenous vitamin C supplementary to other forms of treatment, the response very often, not always, is absolutely dramatic If you get them early enough. You must get them early. If you delay, and they have been unconscious let us say for days, or a day or two, you cannot reverse it. The damage is permanent. If you get them early, give them this treatment and there is no problem. And that makes me very, very angry, because they talk about "Oh, we must stop these kids getting measles" and so forth. Well, all right, I can fix them if they get measles.

IVN: What about oral vitamin C as a preventive measure?

Kalokerinos: As a preventive measure, yes. But when they get sick like that, they have to have it intravenously. Or, sometimes if they are not all that sick, you can get away with intramuscular shots, but really it has to be intravenously. I have witnessed dozens and dozens of times how kids sick from virus infections, how their responses are dramatic. Once again with the proviso, a very important proviso, that you get them early.

IVN: So what is your final conclusion from your experience after so many years?

Kalokerinos: My final conclusion after forty years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organisation and the unofficial policy of ‘Save the Children’s Fund and almost all those organisations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don’t. I am talking of those at the very top. Beneath that level is another level of doctors and health workers, like myself, who don’t really understand what they are doing. But I cannot see any other possible explanation: It is murder and it is genocide. And I tell you what: when the black races really wake up to what we have done to them they are not going to thank us very much. And if you want to see what harm vaccines do, don’t come to Australia or New Zealand or any place, go to Africa and you will see it there.

Link to this posting: http://www.whale.to/v/kalokerinos.html

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Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine!
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
25th April 2009
www.rense.com

Hello Jeff
I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU.
Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given.

Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come. I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine.

Do not take seasonal flu vaccine if you are told that it could help prevent this brand new Swine Flu variant. It won't do a thing to prevent this flu. What it will do is serve up new genetic material to the Swine Flu virus that I have dubbed Spanish Flu 2, the Sequel. The Spanish Flu variant will use the gene sequences in the vaccine in humans to develop more of the changes that make the virus more readily infect humans. We do not want to give this virus more human genetic material so that it will infect humans more readily person to person. This is what vaccinated individuals do for pandemic strains.

There is also a safety issue in any experimental vaccine, much like the one in 1976. Some people even feel that such a vaccine for pandemic strain might require more than one vaccination which could actually be a binary set up. The first shot might just add some genetic code that stays dormant in the body until one gets the second vaccine shot which then serves to only cause infection. It could trigger Guillain-barre syndrome, Typhus or some other condition.

An Influenza vaccine does not protect or prevent a person from contracting flu. It is purported to, maybe, prevent some complications of flu and maybe shorten duration. I am not even sure it does that. Personally, I feel the vaccine weakens our immune system and also sickens us due to contaminants in the vaccine. I feel that people can better protect themselves by washing hands often and thoroughly. People should also use protective gloves when out and about during epidemics. Don't be afraid of "looking odd." I would not be ashamed to use a mask and gloves. I see that the Mexicans are using them.

A big problem during a pandemic is that these simple supplies will become extremely scarce awfully quickly. Stock up now. Medical supplies. personal hygene supplies and don't forget fido, or any other pet. Once a pandemic hits, it will be too late to stock up. Water, too.
We may lose clean water and electric power, so be prepared.

So, please, people, DON'T TAKE ANY VACCINES OFFERED. THEY COULD KILL YOU BEFORE ANY VIRUS KILLS YOU.

Pat Doyle
Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at:http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
Also my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

Link to this posting: http://www.rense.com/general85/vacc.htm

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Mexican Drug Cartel Linked With al Qaeda Unleashes Pandemic
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)
April 25, 2009

Disturbing reports are emerging from the Kremlin today detailing what many Russian scientists believe is a biological attack upon the North American continent initiated by members of Mexican drug cartels operating in concert with al Qaeda cells linked to Pakistan who have unleashed as an yet ‘unknown’ influenza type virus reported to have killed at least 150 in Mexico and now being reported in the US States of Texas, California and New York.

According to these reports, Mexican Federal Police have reported to Interpol that the ‘bullet ridden’ bodies of 9 men found in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco have been linked to Yemen, Lebanon and Pakistan and are believed to be members of an al Qaeda cell operating out of the Triple Border Region of South America where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet and is home to one of the largest Lebanese expatriate populations in the World.

These reports continue by stating that evidence found by Mexican police in the vehicles belonging to this alleged al Qaeda cell point to their having transported ‘biological materials’ believed to have been sold to the powerful Sinaloa Cartel that United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called a ‘National Security Threat’ in his launching America’s biggest ever assault ever upon these drug lords of Mexico eight weeks ago.

The purpose of this biological attack, reports the FSB, is but a further escalation in the deadly drug war in Mexico that threatens to topple their government and that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has reported has killed nearly 10,000 and shows no signs of abating.

Forcing this unprecedented escalation in this war, the FSB further reports, was the arrest of the son of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael Zambada Garcia’s son Vicente Zambada Niebla, also known as “El Vicentillo”, who his father has vowed to free, “no matter what the cost”.

Russian Military Analysts also state in these reports that the ‘biological agent’ being used in this attack was ‘most likely’ created at the secret al Qaeda laboratories located in Algeria which recently suffered a ‘catastrophic’ failure during one of their experiments, and as we can read:

“An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.

The official, who spoke on the condition he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said he could not confirm press reports that the accident killed at least 40 al Qaeda operatives, but he said the mishap led the militant group to shut down a base in the mountains of Tizi Ouzou province in eastern Algeria.

He said authorities in the first week of January intercepted an urgent communication between the leadership of al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal region of Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The communication suggested that an area sealed to prevent leakage of a biological or chemical substance had been breached, according to the official.”

Russian Military reports further state that the influenza variant al Qaeda scientists were believed to be experimenting with was meant to be specifically ‘targeted’ against US and NATO Military Forces, and which appears to be confirmed by the World Health Organization who in reporting on this mysterious new flu virus states:

“The majority of these cases have occurred in otherwise healthy young adults. Influenza normally affects the very young and the very old, but these age groups have not been heavily affected in Mexico. Because there are human cases associated with an animal influenza virus, and because of the geographical spread of multiple community outbreaks, plus the somewhat unusual age groups affected, these events are of high concern.”

Western news sources further report about this growing tragedy:

“The World Health Organization said on Friday it was calling an emergency committee to advise whether outbreaks of swine flu in humans in the United States and Mexico constituted an international public health threat.

A deadly strain of swine flu never seen before has broken out in Mexico, killing as many as 60 people and raising fears of a possible spread across North America.

“WHO will convene, sometime in the very near future, an emergency committee under the International Health Regulations, which will consider whether or not this event constitutes a public health event of international concern,” WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Reuters in Geneva.”

FSB reports also state that this mysterious virus has infiltrated the United States following the known drug routes from Mexico into the US States of Texas, California and New York and will, ‘most likely’ continue its spread across the entire North American continent should preventative measures fail to contain it.

President Obama is reported to be monitoring this deadly situation and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is reported to have activated his States Joint Emergency Operations Center in response to this crisis, though strangely, the US has stated that it is not yet advising its citizens to avoid traveling to Mexico.

Russian Medical Authorities in these reports state that though deadly, the dangers of contracting this, or any other type of influenza, can be countered by sound hygiene practices such as staying away from all medical care facilities unless emergency treatment is needed,

staying away from crowds,

wearing of face masks to minimize the spread of this disease through inhalation and

the vigorous washing of hands after any contact with other human beings or surfaces they may have touched.

It is also interesting to note that the Conficker computer virus many believed would wreak havoc on April 1, is reported to be ‘slowly reactivating’ in a curious coincidence with the spread of this mysterious new virus, and which FSB sources state is ‘preparing’ for some as yet ‘unknown event’ believed to be imminent.

© April 25, 2009 EU and US all rights reserved

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Medical Director: Swine Flu Was “Cultured In A Laboratory”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
April 25, 2009

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Editor’s note: On Friday, NPR reported that the deadly swine flu “combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before,” thus leading us to suspect it was cooked up in a lab.

Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst. Questions about the source of the outbreak are also being asked after a public health official said that the virus was “cultured in a laboratory”.

“This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified,” said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director (video clip here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090424.wvswine_flu0...).

Was this a slip-up or an admission that this new super-strain of swine influenza was deliberately cultured in a laboratory and released?

Alarming reports are now filtering in about people catching the illness who have had no contact with pigs whatsoever. These include a man and his daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old woman in Imperial County and two teenagers in San Antonio, Texas. In fact, in all U.S. cases, the victims had no contact with any pigs.

Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s public health officer, told KPBS “We have had person-to-person spread with the father and the daughter,” says Wooten, “And also with the two teenagers in Texas, they were in the same school. So that also indicates person-to-person transfer.”

“Dr. Wooten says it’s unclear how people were exposed to swine flu. She says none of the patients have had any contact with pigs,” according to the report.

Although the situation in the U.S. looks under control, panic is spreading in Mexico, where 800 cases of pneumonia in the capital alone are suspected to be related to the swine flu and the virus has hit young and healthy people, which is very rare with an flu outbreak. Despite the danger of a pandemic, the U.S. border with Mexico remains open.

“Mexico has shut schools and museums and canceled hundreds of public events in its sprawling, overcrowded capital of 20 million people to try to prevent further infections,” reports Reuters.

“My level of concern is significant,” said Dr. Martin Fenstersheib, the health officer for Santa Clara County. “We have a novel virus, a brand-new strain that’s spreading human to human, and we are also seeing a virulent strain in Mexico that seems to be related. We certainly have concerns for this escalating.”

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The WHO insists that the outbreak has “pandemic potential” and has been stockpiling supplies of Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection, according to officials.

As we previously highlighted, those that have a stake in the Tamiflu vaccine include top globalists and BIlderberg members like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Indeed, Rumsfeld himself played a key role in hyping an outbreak of swine flu back in the 1976 when he urged the entire country to get vaccinated. Many batches of the vaccine were contaminated, resulting in hundreds of sick people and 52 fatalities.

The fact that the properties of the strain are completely new, that the virus is spreading from people to people, and that the young and healthy are being hit worst, has disturbing parallels to the deadly 1918 pandemic that killed millions.

It is unclear as to why, if the virus is a brand new strain, that public health officials are so confident programs of mass vaccination, which are already being prepared, would necessarily be effective.

It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that deadly flu viruses have been concocted in labs and then dispatched with the intention of creating a pandemic.

When the story first broke last month, Czech newspapers questioned if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.

Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.

However, this is not the first time that vaccine companies have been caught distributing vaccines contaminated with deadly viruses.

In 2006 it was revealed that Bayer Corporation had discovered that their injection drug, which was used by hemophiliacs, was contaminated with the HIV virus. Internal documents prove that after they positively knew that the drug was contaminated, they took it off the U.S. market only to dump it on the European, Asian and Latin American markets, knowingly exposing thousands, most of them children, to the live HIV virus. Government officials in France went to prison for allowing the drug to be distributed. The documents show that the FDA colluded with Bayer to cover-up the scandal and allowed the deadly drug to be distributed globally. No Bayer executives ever faced arrest or prosecution in the United States.

In the UK, a 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth disease that put Britain on high alert has been originated from a government laboratory which is shared with an American pharmaceutical company, mirroring the deadly outbreak of 2001, which was also deliberately released.

As we reported yesterday, last time there was a significant outbreak of a new form of swine flu in the U.S. it originated at the army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Link to this posting: http://www.infowars.com/medical-director-swine-flu-was-cultured-in-a-lab...

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"Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health,"
by William Sargent,
2002, University Press of New England:

“The Rumsfeld [connection to Swine Flu] starts in 1976, when a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the ‘swine flu’ virus of 1918 pandemic fame. As Sargent tells it, Rumsfeld, who was then and is again the nation's secretary of defense, made the imminent ‘swine flu’ a political issue to add some spark to the campaign of President Ford, an interim leader without a cause. At Rumsfeld's urging, the administration would ensure that "every man, woman and child" was vaccinated. Huge amounts of vaccine were produced and distributed quickly."

Parsons adds, “Some batches were contaminated. This was in the days before lysate. Six hundred people sickened and 52 died. The program was stopped a month after the election. And nobody got swine flu. ‘It was,’ writes Sargent, ‘modern medicine's most flagrant miscalculation.’ Parsons also mentions Sargent’s linkage between the '76 swine flu scare and the more current discussion about a smallpox vaccine. “‘How will the United States protect itself against bioterrorism?’ [Sargent] asks. ‘The Department of Defense proposes … 40 million new doses of smallpox vaccine.’ Sargent is concerned about the possibility of bacterial contamination in vaccines that are rushed to market, and suggests that such contamination might have been behind adverse reactions to the vaccine in the past. ‘[Rumsfeld] is one of the architects of the present campaign.’”

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola at the Alliance for Human Research Protection, observers of the Swine Flu debacle had far stronger comments than Sargent's, as follows: “Ida Honorof [called it], ‘the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy’ ever … proposed by the President 'and his coterie of scientific hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political capital, rammed through without consideration of people's health and lives and approved by a band-wagon Congress’ eager to make the nation's ‘health’ a bipartisan concern.”

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SWINE FLU ANOTHER MEDICALLY-MADE EPIDEMIC

"Take the profit out of the manufacture and administration of serums and vaccines and they would soon be condemned even by those who are now using them"—George Starr White M D

At the present writing, October 1976, a group of medical opportunists have taken upon themselves the dictatorial authority to declare the threat of a sweeping epidemic of SWINE FLU which they said was similar to or related to the 1918 epidemic of Spanish influenza which wiped out 20,000,000 people world-wide. This declaration was supposed to scare all the people into their vaccination centers to be shot full of experimental vaccine poisons, while they, the promoters, raked in the profits. During the big polio vaccine drive, a spokesman for ParkeDavis one of the five drug houses making the vaccine stated "Our company will clear over $10,000,000 on Salk vaccine in 1955 " Before they were through they had fleeced the people of over $4 billion dollars on the Salk racket (See the chapter on POLIO CAUSED BY VACCINATION)

Most of the people had their eyes opened during the polio vaccine fiasco so now when the same poison pushers started to beat their drums again for swine flu vaccine customers, they were smart enough to see through the hoax and refuse the shots, even though the scare-head propaganda slogans said swine flu is contagious and you can die if you don t get the shots

However, the scare techniques and perhaps other inducements, worked on (the then acting) President Ford who has since been voted out of office—and none too soon. When the high pressure sales committee, Doctors Salk Sabin, Sencer, Mathews Cooper, etc marched into Ford's office in March (76) and told him to hand over $135,000,000 to support their private money making racket, he handed it over like a simple child without even bothering to ask them for a guarantee that their unproved vaccine would not kill the people—as it did in other vaccine drives—or that their claims were justified.

Their claims of safety, effectiveness and need have all been proved to be false during the past few weeks when the vaccine killed 113 people, nation wide, and paralyzed 75 in California alone. We do not have the reports from all 50 states, but if it is the same as in Calif. that would add up to 3,675 cases of paralysis. Many coroners have been given orders by the doctors not to give out the swine flu casualties. So, we don’t know all the facts yet, and we may never know unless we have a "Watergate" investigation.

$5,000,000 LAW SUIT FILED AGAINST FLU PROMOTERS FOR CAUSING PARALYSIS

A radio newscast (Jan. 77) reported that one of the paralyzed swine flu victims has filed a $5,000,000 suit against the vaccine promoters for causing his paralysis in December of 1976. His suit is against the instigators of the flu epidemic scare, who are Dr. David Sencer of CDC (Center for Disease Control) who spearheaded the vaccine campaign, and Dr. Theodore Cooper of WHO (World Health Organization), the Health Departments which promoted the shots and the six drug houses making the swine flu vaccine. (Why not Ford also and his Congress who financed it?) His complaint was that they had put out propaganda promising that the vaccine had been thoroughly tested and was perfectly safe, and that the swine flu was contagious and people could die if they didn’t get vaccinated, and that they would be protected if they had the shots, and that the side effects, if any were "inconsequential."

Dr. Edwin Kilbourne, head of the Microbiology Department at Mount Sinai Medical School (L.A. Calif.) said he thought "the cases of paralysis were only coincidence."

Paralysis is known to be a common after-effect of vaccination—any kind of vaccine—and these 75 California cases were paralyzed shortly after their flu shots—and yet, this doctor says (in effect) "forget it—maybe it wasn’t the vaccine that did it." If that is the kind of teaching and slipshod guesswork that our young medical students are getting it isn’t surprising that the doctors come out of medical college all mixed up and unable to cure anything—not even the common cold or pimples. All they learn is how to suppress symptoms with poison drugs or mutilate the patients with unnecessary operations. 97% of the operations performed by U.S. doctors are unnecessary, according to the admission of doctors, themselves, who met to decide what operations would really be necessary in case of socialized medicine when there would be no profit in it for them. They decided that only about three percent (3%) would be necessary.

All the flu vaccine sales promises were lies—proved later by the deaths and disasters within a few hours after the shots.

The insurance companies which had insured the doctors and vaccine makers down through the years balked at this obvious vaccine swindle game. We wonder why Ford couldn’t have taken a tip from these shrewd businessmen and also turned down the whole, questionable vaccine program. We wonder what inducements prompted Ford and Congress to let themselves be talked into financing not only the vaccine but paying the damage costs which could amount to billions of dollars judging by the large number of deaths and disasters already reported, plus those which have been hushed up by the vaccine promoters.

The most common remark we hear on the streets today is, "IT’S THE BIGGEST RIP-OFF OF ALL TIME."

The vaccine promoters and drug insurance companies, no doubt, remembered the multi-million dollar law suits following the devastating polio vaccine campaign of the 1950’s when the Salk, Sabin, and Cutter vaccines caused thousands of cases of polio, death, and other disasters. The law suits flooded the courts and the vaccine promoters and drug houses had to pay out damages amounting to many millions of dollars.

The five pharmaceutical houses making the Salk vaccine were called the Rockefeller chain then, and it is the same ones now making the swine flu vaccine, with a few exceptions. The vaccine promoters wanted to dodge all financial loss—the cost of the vaccine and the damage suits, so they could make clear profit, while the taxpayers were saddled with both the payment of the vaccine and the damages, also. I doubt that the crime syndicate could run a more crooked racket than this government sponsored and financed caper, with all the profits siphoned off into the pockets of the medical and drug concerns.

If those smooth talking con-men had been holding a machine gun on Ford they couldn’t have done a quicker and easier job of robbing this simple man who didn’t even know enough to do a little investigating before dipping into the public till to finance a private money making scheme.

Ford was not the only guilty one in this conspiracy against the people. Most of the members of Congress gave their supporting vote.

Before leaving office Ford asked the taxpayers to give the Congressmen a substantial raise. We wonder if he wanted to reward them for their part in helping him support organized medical crime.

An AP news report in the Los Angeles Times (Dec. 3, 1976) with a headline: $129 MILLION FEDERAL RAISE PROPOSED, says in part:

". . . Ford will put the exact rates of pay he thinks advisable into the budget submitted next month. Unless the House or Senate kills the proposals. (Are they likely to turn down a raise?) the members of the House and Senate will receive $57,500 annually compared to the current $44,600."

Are they worth it? Another report told us that most of our Congressmen are corporation lawyers with an eye to serving private interests. Their vote for giving $135,000,000 of tax money to support a private medical racket (swine flu vaccine) would indicate that they are indeed working for "outside interests", and not for the good of the people who hired them to their high positions.

The same AP report also says: "The commission (to raise salaries) made it clear that it hoped to link the raises to a commitment by the three branches of government to come up with a stricter code of conduct on outside income and financial disclosures."

Does this mean that if they are given the big raise they must promise to tell the truth about what "outside interests" paid them extra to swing the "big deals" in their favor?

Public officials like this should not be given any raise at all; they should be given a dismissal and a prison sentence, plus confiscating the bribes they have taken from "big business".

SWINE FLU VACCINE TESTS PROVE UNSAFE

At the same time the vaccine promoters were telling Ford the vaccine was "tested and perfectly safe" they were still testing it on lab. animals, soldiers and little children. The ones who can’t defend themselves.

In A REPORT TO THE CONSUMER (Sept., 75) by Ida Honorof, she presents a compilation of data from the National Institute of Health—Division of Biologic Standards, Bulletin of World Health Organization, and Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former Director of a branch of FDA Virus research. Dr. Morris’ findings show that the flu vaccine, when inhaled by lab. animals "tended to enhance cancerous tumors."

Pregnant women had been on the preferred list for shots until findings indicated that certain substances in flu vaccine "could pose a serious threat of fetal damage to women who might become pregnant. . ."

In the report she reviews an article by Aurora Reich, Director of Scientific Communications, published in Indianapolis Star, which states:

"The virus itself (flu vaccine) has toxic properties, even after it is killed, which can cause fever and convulsions, especially in children. January Journal of Pediatrics carried the research of Doctors at Atlanta and Sheffield, England working together testing a purified killed influenza vaccine. They concluded that even the purified killed vaccine is too toxic (poison) to be given to children . .. The study showed 69% of the infants ran high fever 6 to 12 hours after vaccinations, and one had convulsions."

Other studies showed that about 10% had convulsions, and one died. One doctor pointed out that "there are 9 million children under 3 years of age. If 10% of them had convulsions, that would be 900,000 with convulsions.. (and how many deaths?) The routine vaccination of infants and children has not been recommended by the Public Health Service."

How tragic that these helpless little children are being used to test poison drugs—like laboratory animals. I thought that was against the law. It’s deplorable to even use animals for this, as practically all the tests are for things we do not need, such as poison drugs, vaccines, unnecessary operations, etc. Yes, all vaccines are dangerous drugs. (See the chapter on HOW VACCINES ARE MADE)

Every once in a while we hear of an honest doctor who is not afraid to speak out and warn the people against vaccines. Such a man is Dr. James A. Shannon, of the National Institute of Health. He stated: "THE ONLY SAFE VACCINE IS A VACCINE THAT IS NEVER USED."

When it was proved that the vaccine was too dangerous to be used on children it should have been condemned and destroyed before it did any more harm, because if it is too dangerous for children or anyone else, it is too dangerous for all people.

Doctors who have been questioned, admit that they are not taking the shots for themselves or their own children.

The old, the ill and the other "high risk" cases are more sensitive to poisons and more readily broken down and killed by them, and yet, the doctors and vaccine promoters advised them to be the first in line to get the shots. I think they wanted to test the risky vaccine first on them to see what would happen and if it caused death and disasters the doctors could blame it on their old age or their various infirmities.

The doctors seem to consider these sick and elderly people expendable commodities of no importance. I saw an example of this when I sat in on a vaccine promotion meeting on USC campus (L.A.) recently, when the promoters were trying to drum up business and get the students to submit to the shots.

People in the audience started to ask questions of the doctor on the stand. They asked about the vaccine death that had occurred a few hours after the shots. He passed it off lightly with indifference saying that "they would have died anyway," or "They were old and probably had ailments that killed them." he made it clear that the vaccine promoters were not going to take any responsibility for their death dealing vaccines. He was one of the teachers at the medical school at USC. God protect us from the kind of doctors he would influence.

These vaccine casualties were not listed as such or the public records. The death certificates were falsified and causes were given other than the vaccine which killed them (See the chapter on FALSIFIED MEDICAL RECORDS.)

NO SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC

The whole swine flu scare was based on the death of only one soldier at Fort Dix, New Jersey (One report said october, 1975 and another said February, 1976). There was never any real evidence that he even had swine flu. There was a wide divergence of opinion among the doctors as to the real cause of his death. Some even tried to blame it on a walk he took when he was ill. An official diagnosis pronounced his death to be from A-Victoria flu, and not swine flu. All the soldiers at the camp had been innoculated with Port Chalmers flu vaccine, which was claimed to contain antigens to protect against all strains of flu. Shortly after the shots over 500 men got sick with the flu anyway, thus proving that the flu vaccine is a total failure and does not protect from the flu or anything else. 66 more were hospitalized at Fort Knox about the same time. We do not have the report from all the army camps but, it is quite certain there were a large number of cases of serious vaccine poisoning—no doubt, called by some other name, and death certificates falsified as is usually the case with vaccination deaths. The death certificates of vaccine poisoning usually read, "died of pneumonia" or hepatitis, or meningitis or something else.

The present flu vaccine they are using on the civilian population is just as ineffective and dangerous, and yet, it is being promoted all over the country with disastrous results. No matter how many casualties they have they are determined to use it as long as they can get away with it—because it is profitable. That is its one and only purpose.

Even if the swine flu had been the cause of the soldier’s death, one case of a disease is not grounds to stage a nation-wide epidemic. It takes at least 30 cases of the same disease in the same locality to constitute an epidemic.

The vaccine promoters have been frantically trying to find at least one case of swine flu anywhere in the world to justify their custom made vaccination campaign. But they have not found one case—even among the swine. They heard of a man named Larry Hardison in Missouri who had a cold and they rushed to him to try to get a throat sample so they could make a case out of it. But he got well before they got the throat sample. Most of the cases of flu they check are caused by the vaccine itself.

There is no swine flu epidemic in U.S. or anywhere else in the world, and there is not going to be one either unless the vaccine promoters carry out their plan to vaccinate all the people; then there will be a full blown epidemic of vaccine poisoning—not flu.

There are already 113 recorded vaccine deaths and that is enough to be an epidemic of vaccine poisoning.

ALL VACCINES ARE POISON

Vaccines contain decomposed protein such as that which is taken from pustules on sick animals or putrefied eggs mixed with deadly drugs such as carbolic acid (phenol), mercury, formaldehyde (formalin), etc. Decomposed proteins can cause botulism, salmonella or other types of body poisoning. It’s no wonder people drop dead after the shots.

All doctors who know the subject know and admit that all vaccines are highly toxic, and the after-effects are unpredictable. No doctor, laboratory technician or scientist can possibly determine the reaction the vaccine will have on each individual. It is impossible to know, in advance, the toleration point for poison which each person has. Therefore it is a deadly gamble—like Russian roulette—as to whether the vaccine will cause instant death (and that sometimes happens), or paralysis a few hours later, or cancer, heart trouble or TB a few years later, or kidney disease, liver damage, insanity (post vaccinal encephalitis—inflammation of the brain caused by vaccines) or some other chronic disease somewhere along the way.

Vaccine is even worse than Russian roulette because that kills only a few and they are usually other crooks, while vaccination kills thousands of innocent and trusting people.

FORD THE PUPPET

After the vaccine promoters "took" Ford for $135 million, they told him to be a good boy and roll up his sleeve so they could photograph him having a shot to induce all the rest of the people to follow his example. They wanted to use him and his photo and influence as sales propaganda to sell their poison drugs. He obeyed like a puppet on a string.

No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us. They see a fake epidemic—a mass poisoning campaign—and our national leaders dancing to the tune of the drug (vaccine) pushers.

Dr G. Nossel of the World Health Organisation said:

‘You Americans ought to have your heads examined—No way would we permit it.. . There has been no proper investigation . . . The vaccine has not been properly researched.. . There are too many unknowns."

From as far away as Australia, there are those in authority who are shocked to see that such a fraud should be permitted—even promoted by the U.S. Government, along with the medical establishment, notorious for their money making schemes.

Dr. Archie Kalokerines, medical superintendent of Colleranebri Hospital in Australia, called the swine flu immunization program "a plan for mass murder . .. If a person is susceptible, the vaccine may act as an immunological insult predisposing that person to things like pneumonia or anemia ... If an individual is incubating another flu virus it can cause an immediate and severe attack of that disease.. . We don’t know what the long term effects of this drug (swine flu vaccine) will be. It may predispose a person to cancer or other diseases . . ." (See the chapter on CANCERS CAUSED BY VACCINATION.)

The above statement is from an exclusive interview with the Glendale News Press (9/24/76) and reprinted in A report to the Consumer, by Honorof.

"Harry Nelson, Medical Editor for L.A. Times, reported on an American Cancer Society Seminar for Science Writers, and announced that microbiologists have uncovered new findings that incriminate vaccination. One of the participants was Dr. Robert M. Simpson of Rutgers University, N.J., who stressed that ‘Immunization programs against flu, measles, mumps, and polio may actually be seeding humans with RNA to form proviruses which will then become latent cells throughout the body . .. Some of these could be molecules in search of a disease, which under proper conditions become activated and cause a variety of diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosus, Parkinson’s disease and perhaps cancer." This quote is from the Honorof Report for June, 1976.

The chapter on CANCER CAUSED BY VACCINATION shows photographs of vaccine victims with cancers on the arms where the vaccine was injected.

From the NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION we hear, "The risks of life and health from the high incidence of fever and other side-effects of the swine flu vaccine are substantial. Public health experts estimate that approximately 15% of those inoculated will suffer disabling illness."

Our paid government health agencies who are supposed to warn us of health hazards are not doing it. It has been outsiders who have been busy spending their own time and money to find out facts and warn the people against this colossal medical fraud. One source we need to thank for this is THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER and their state-by-state probe to collect data on deaths from vaccination, cases of swine flu, if any, who started the vaccine hoax and why, etc. In their Nov. 2, 1976 article by Chuck Michelini and Dan Schwartz, they write:

"Blundering government health experts (?) are directly to blame for the trail of deaths in the swine flu program — because they failed to warn people of vaccination dangers. And the mass inoculation program is needless —because there are no cases of swine flu in the entire world.

"Those are the charges leveled by top medical experts — who say the swine flu threat was blown out of proportion, then sold to President Ford and the American public with scandalous "horror tactics."

"Government officials are trying to scare Americans into getting shots with totally misleading TV commercials that say swine flu is contagious — and newspaper ads saying ‘you can die’ if you aren’t vaccinated."

Actually, swine flu is not contagious at all. Like other diseases, it is a cleansing effort of the body to force out the accumulated poisons that have been injected or eaten, breathed or taken in in some other way. Coughing, sneezing, sweating (fever), vomiting, diarrhea, rashes, eruptions, etc. are the manifestations of the unloading program and should not be interfered with by suppressive drugs or other medical meddling. Most drugless doctors say that most diseases heal normally if the patients stay at home in bed, in a quiet airy room with no food, no medicines, and no drinks except a little warm distilled water.

In case of a cold, most medical doctors say take two aspirins and drink plenty of liquids. That’s bad advice because aspirin is a drastic heart poison and should be avoided entirely in all circumstances, and "liquids" — not specific enough. The patient could take that to mean coffee, tea, alcoholics, soft drinks (all of which are poison) or soups, fruit juices, ice water, etc. all of which are harmful in illness. Reasons are given in another chapter.

Although the medical and government propaganda mills sent ads to the major newspapers warning "You can die from swine flu," authorities who were willing to stick to facts were saying just the opposite. For instance, Dr. J. Anthony Morris, one of the government’s top experts on vaccines, stated:

"That’s absolutely false. There’s no evidence that swine flu is a killer . . . It is not contagious . . . There is no evidence that swine flu will spread. It has not been isolated anywhere since it was (allegedly) found in Feb. at Fort Dix, N.J." While addressing a meeting in Los Angeles he said, "...The swine flu vaccine is worthless. There’s no evidence that it will protect you against swine flu because there’s been no cases of swine flu to test it against."

He also said: "Effectiveness of flu vaccine is comparatively low. Flu vaccine made from inactivated virus particles such as now being manufactured, produces the wrong kind of immunity. It elicits systemic antibody that can be measured in the blood, but does not produce the local antibody in lungs and nose needed to protect against infection to the virus if later infected.

"There is no precise way to measure the potency of flu vaccine that will be offered Americans because the standard units do not measure the mass of virus particles in a vaccine."

Dr. Morris was fired from his job because he opposed the swine flu program and pointed out the defects which showed it could be dangerous as well as entirely ineffective.

Dr. Weidman, of the University of Florida, a recognized virologist, also agrees that the swine flu vaccine is inadequate to do any good. Doctors both here and in England found that their tests on laboratory animals were not encouraging. When the dose was potent enough to kill the virus it also killed the animals and when it was weakened enough to be safe for animals and people it was too weak to do any good, and was no protection.

"So far, only 25,000,000 Americans out of a total population of 216.2 million have had the swine flu shots. And as Dr. J. Anthony Morris puts it: ‘That means 191 million Americans have failed to be taken in by the hard sell propaganda. The swine flu program is a program of incredibly high costs and questionable benefits’ " (Enquirer, 12/21/76).

It seems to us that some doctors are slow learners. They should have found out by this time that they can’t fight poison with poison, as their poison drugs and medicines only make matters worse in the long run. Most diseases are caused by poisons either generated within the body or imposed upon the body from without such as contaminated, devitalized foods, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, vaccines, fluoride-poisoned water, all drugs, insecticides, radiation, etc. Because vaccines are all poison they do damage in 100% of the cases. The damage ranges all the way from sudden death to chronic diseases in later years.

VACCINE CAN TRIGGER HEART ATTACK

Dr. Selye of the University of Montreal, one of the world’s foremost authorities on human stress, stated:

"After inoculations, elderly people and the chronically ill are particularly predisposed to have certain stress reactions such as heart failure." (Enquirer 12/21/76)

In spite of this and other similar findings, the vaccine promoters urged all the senior citizens, the old and ill the high risk cases to be the first in line to get their shots. Because of this mad rush for profits the promoters are guilty of causing all those needless deaths of the elderly people a few hours after they had their shots.

Dr. Cyril Wecht, of Allegheny, Pa. performed autopsies on several of the flu vaccine victims and said:

"People should have been advised to ask their doctor if the shots were safe for them, especially if they’d had heart attacks or high blood pressure — but this was not done."

What good would it do to ask their doctor? Most doctors don’t know the dangers of vaccination, and if they did they wouldn’t tell their patients, as long as it was profitable to them to keep silent about it. The individual doctors usually do what their medical hierarchy tells them to do, and when they are promoting a vaccination drive the doctors are ordered to comply.

My previous research on vaccination revealed many cases of sudden death from heart failure after vaccinations. As stated many times before, all vaccines are poison and when they are shot directly into the bloodstream they circulate throughout the body including the heart, in a matter of seconds, and continue to circulate and cause corrosion and malfunction of all the delicate tissues of the body. The heart valves are made of fragile membrane which is affected by the poisons, in such a way as to render it incapable of proper functioning, leading to heart failure. At the same time, all other vital organs are impaired by the same poisons.

Most doctors and coroners try to deny the obvious when protecting a favorite money making racket like vaccination. For instance, the Los Angeles County Coroner, Thomas Noguchi performed autopsies on people who had died within 48 hours after being inoculated with swine flu vaccine. His statement, published in Los Angeles Times, Nov. 2, 1976, savored of both whitewash and sales propaganda when he said: "We do not believe the vaccine had anything to do with their deaths . . . Heart disease of various types was the cause of death in each case The patient with heart disease is clearly at risk of getting flu if he or she is not protected. Therefore, under guidance of their physician, it is advisable for such high risk persons to get their shots."

If we all followed his advice and got poisoned with the vaccines we would all be dead from vaccine induced heart failure or some other disease of blood contamination.

80% OF ALL MEDICAL DOCTORS ARE UNFIT

In a KABC radio interview, recently, Edgar Berman, M.D., consultant on medical affairs to the White House and associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine made some startling statements, a few of which are as follows:

"At least some 200,000 M.D.’s practicing medicine today are guilty of incompetence. . . I estimate at least 10% of these are actually fraudulent and corrupt ... And an unfortunately small percentage — certainly less than 15% —are intelligent, hardworking, compassionate, and moral

The scramble for the dollar shows up in statistics. Approximately 1 500 000 (unnecessary) tonsillectomies a year Some 14 000 to 16,000 persons die each year because of the 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 unnecessary operations performed, and God knows how many hundreds of thousands have complications.

"Over the past 50 years doctors have been implicated in producing more infections, crippling and suffering than all the accidents caused by the combustion engine plus every illness foisted on the laborer by industry, from black lung to radiation poisoning.

"Studies at Cornell and Yale have shown that 1,250,000 hospitalizations a year are caused by prescribed drugs. And once in a hospital, you’re still far from safe. Our hospitals, even the best in the land, produce over 5,000,000 cases of disease a year."

Dr. Berman wrote a book titled, THE SOLID GOLD STETHOSCOPE. It’s a shocker. It "gives the low-down on the high-ups" in the medical field and has the authenticity of a man — a medical doctor — who knows the story from the inside — the seamy side. It’s not only informative, it’s a million laughs.

There is so much bungling, guesswork, faulty diagnosis and cover-up, both inside and outside of the hospitals, that the doctors conceal their manslaughter cases by calling them "Accidents." There are so many doctor-caused diseases that they have given them a name, "iatrogenic." It means doctor-caused diseases. People think they go to the hospitals to get well — to be healed, but instead, millions of them are made sicker by the treatments, and even killed by the poison drugs, operations and experiments. Most, maybe all, of the hospitals have a separate section set aside for their "iatrogenic diseases." Why are they kept separate? It is probably because the doctors don’t want the visitors to see what they have done to them, and also to use them for experimentation. They justify this by claiming they must experiment to find a cure for the diseases they have caused. But they use the same deadly drugs and treatments that caused the diseases in the first place.

The famous Dr. Charles Mayo, in a radio broadcast a number of years ago was honest enough to admit that with all their latest equipment and medical training at the Mayo Clinic, they are able to get only 20% of their diagnoses and treatments right. The autopsies on the dead bodies showed them what they did wrong.

An article in Dr. Shelton’s Hygienic Review (Dec. 76) quotes some interesting statements from a group of 18 internationally known scientists. The Chicago Tribune (Dec. 22/76) also carried the article by Ronald Kotulak. Here are a few of their remarks:

The shocking conclusion is that drugs are so widely misused that only 10% of the medications taken in the industrialized world are for disease-related purposes.

"They point out that there is no such thing as a safe chemical, a fact that doctors tend to forget and that most people do not know . . . Doctors frequently prescribe drugs even though they know little about them, and the people eagerly take them. The price which the patients pay in terms of adverse side effects are horrendous.

"Studies in America and England have revealed that, out of every 20 hospital patients, one is admitted because of the harm done by drugs.

"Once in the hospital the risk increases. Up to 18% of the patients suffer from bad side-effects caused by medications prescribed in the hospitals.

"‘The annual cost of treating this unnecessary and preventable abuse of medications is close to $3 billion,’ said this international Commission of Internal Pollution — a staggering waste of money and health

"Who is to blame for our medicinal extravaganza? The responsibility must be shared by the drug industry, the government agencies that oversee them, the doctors and those who take the drugs.

"Another breakdown occurs when it comes to test new drugs on people. A spot check conducted by the Food and Drug Administration in 1973 disclosed that 20% of the doctors doing these clinical trials were guilty of unethical practices, including prescribing wrong doses and falsifying records."

DRUGS CANNOT CURE

All chemicals and drugs are inert, foreign substances which act as irritants when taken internally. They do not have power to act in the body or cure anything. The only reason why they seem to cause some changes which people like to believe are curative is that the internal defense system tries to eject this unwanted foreign matter, and that sets up a reverse action to remedy the harm done by the drugs or chemicals. This taxes the bodily reserves and delays healing. In the case of some drugs it makes healing impossible.

I talked to a young medical student who said that the med. schools were dominated by the drug houses which are flooding the market with so many new drugs which the students are required to learn that they didn’t have time to study anatomy and the things which doctors are supposed to study. No wonder the new doctors don’t seem to know anything except how to give drugs, shots and whatever the pharmaceutical houses dish up to them.

The antibody theory collapsed with scientific tests and that leaves the vaccine business without a leg to stand on. (See Chapter on Germ Theory.)

VACCINE PROMOTERS TRY TO DODGE THE BLAME

Now that the vaccine racket is being exposed, the vaccine promoters are trying to squirm out of it by making confessions or trying to lay the blame on others. The day after the scare headlines came out in the papers — "Swine flu can cause death" — and "the flu vaccine is safe and will protect you. . .", etc., a top virologist for the CDC (Center for Disease Control) which heads the flu program — admitted that the CDC knew the headlines were false." (Enquirer Probe, 12/21/76).

"An official working with the CDC — Dr. Elmer Spurner, director of laboratories for the Missouri Division of Health, admitted, ‘Our tests were not meant to confirm that there was a swine flu outbreak. I don’t know how that got into newspaper stories.’ "He knows.

He and the other promoters did not issue any denials when the headlines across the country read: "Swine Flu Case is Confirmed," and "Flu Vaccine Rushed to Missouri in Crisis." (Ibid)

After the many deaths, heart attacks, paralysis and other cases of vaccine poisoning began to mount, some of the promoters were asked to justify their widely advertised claims that the vaccine "would protect 85% to 90% of those vaccinated" . . . and that the side effects would be few and "inconsequential." One of the favorite tricks of the guilty was to lay the blame on others. As an example, Dr. John Seal of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said:

"The public should be much more careful in interpreting what we mean when we make such statements." (Ibid) What did he mean?

Another man on the advisory committee admitted:

We don’t know what the vaccine will do when it faces the virus." Yet, they all told the people it was "tested and perfectly safe."

In other words, they don’t know what they’re doing, but they tell lies to lure people into their vaccination centers, and when the deaths and disasters occur, the doctors tell us in effect — "It’s your fault for being stupid enough to believe us."

"Dr. Ernest C. Harrmann, associate professor of microbiology at Peoria, Ill., School of Medicine, believes that "the time has come to ask for resignations of all those behind the swine flu vaccine rip off.’ "(Enquirer Probe—12/21/76)

A FEW CONGRESSMEN BLAST THE SWINE FLU HOAX

Not all of our Congressmen are hopeless. Some are actually on our side. Congressman Ron Paul of Texas is also a doctor and is able to see both sides of the swine flu question. Most doctors have tunnel vision and see only one side — the side with the dollar mark.

Congressman Paul, in an interview with the Enquirer (Dec. 21, 76) said: "I am outraged by this program. It has been a shocking misuse of funds ... and an evil political maneuver. There are people whose careers are in question because of this program. And I predict these blatant advertising efforts to panic the people into taking swine flu shots will fail.

"I think Congress has wasted more than one hundred million dollars. The swine flu program should be brought back to Congress and discontinued at once. The program should be stopped, and those who were responsible should be held morally accountable to the American public."

Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia, also a medical doctor, said: "I think the swine flu program is a tailor-made hoax that finds its roots in frightening the American people . . . I believe that a full investigation of those in charge should be launched . . . and if it turns out to be a dishonest promotion, everyone responsible should be removed from their jobs."

It’s heartening to find that all our Congressmen are not corrupt. But where were they, the good ones, when the vote was being taken to endorse and finance this mass poisoning program?

HOW TO PUNISH THE CULPRITS

Removing the guilty from their jobs is not enough. A punishment should be imposed on them which they will feel, and that would be to take away all their money — that’s their real love, obviously. If we gathered up all the bribes they have taken from their outside clients, plus all the other millions they have rounded up by using their governmental influence it, would amount to a billion dollars or more —perhaps. With this backlog of funds we could establish some good non-medical schools which would teach the people what to do to take care of their own ailments — even how to avoid all illness. That is possible because many are now living the health life and have no ailments whatsoever. These schools should be kept free from medical domination and political strings.

Health doctors with the right kind of non-medical training get at least 90% more successful "cures" than do the medical doctors with drugs. This project should be carefully supervised to make sure that a lot of pseudo schools do not spring up parading under the guise of the authentic, well trained schools of natural healing.

The present day medical doctors are 30 years behind the well trained health doctors. Medicine is on its way out. It is a failure method which leads the people astray.

LAW SUITS AGAINST THE VACCINE PROMOTERS

When our President and Health Departments joined bands with our mortal enemies-- the poison pushers (vaccine promoters), and failed to warn the people against hazards of the oncoming poison raid, the people were left unprotected, with no use of the mass media (TV, radio, press etc.) and no help from City Councils, Mayors, Congressmen, County Supervisors, or police, because all our paid protectors had given their allegiance to the public poisoners. When the vaccine was causing death and disaster soon after the campaign was launched a and the trusting unwarned, people were walking blindly into the vaccination centers, the few "do-gooders" who knew what was going on tried to reach as many as possible with WARNING leaflets and meetings. But that was not reaching enough people. It is a helpless feeling to see all our tax supported public officials working against the people and supporting a killer racket.

A few tried to go through legal channels with law suits against our derelict president and the heads of thE vaccine campaign. But that is a slow and expensive procedure, and besides, these hard working "do-gooders’ were not making any money at their self appointed task of warning the people of the deadly hazards of the vaccines.

Three suits were filed from California. One suit which is progressing well was filed by Lewis E. Cook Jr. of San Diego, Calif. He charges that the inserts that appear in the vaccine packages produced by Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Wyeth, and Park Davis (firms making the swine flu vaccine) do not state the vaccine "might be in any way effective ir Preventing influenza . . ." which is supposed to be its purpose and its only justification...

"The claims that influenza vaccine will or can prevent influenza cannot be made legitimately since there is no evidence anywhere in the world which would suggest that influenza vaccines have ever prevented even one case influenza.

"The data indicates that the entire mass immunization program is fraught with unknowns, suppositions, speculations, assumptions and little or practical and sound scientific validity---conceived and implemented in a most amateurish, haphazard and irresponsible manner, which poses a threat to the health -lives of the American public….

"Antibodies (supposedly) produced by the injection of the inactivated and disrupted whole virion and subvirion flu vaccines manufactured for swine flu cannot be shown to be effective in preventing swine flu ... The whole mass immunization program is fraught with dangers and risks without sound scientific data. The immediate, short, and long term adverse effects of the vaccines could not have been adequately determined during the brief period of only 3 or 4 months during which experiments on a few humans were conducted prior to publication" (of drug inserts).

It usually takes the drug companies several years to test vaccines before trying them out on people.

The third suit was filed by Ida Honorof representing People Against Political Innoculations, and of The National Health Federation. They joined forces to file suit in the U.S. District Court to stop the misuse of public funds for a vaccination campaign that has not been proven safe or effective. They assert that the mass inoculation program violated the U.S. Constitution--First Amendment. They request that the whole program be discontinued "unless and until grave doubts and hazards associated this massive vaccine program are disclosed and fully known to the public." Honorof contends that the swine immunization program has been "a series of lies, deceptions -and errors of judgment. We’re asking Ford, and Education and Welfare (HEW) that they terminate the program at once. The greatest danger is not flu but vaccine itself." (Published in VANGUARD, Sept. 76)

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN OUTLAWED

The A.M.A. was found guilty in a U.S. Court of Law for violating the Anti-trust act a number of years ago. Dr. Morris Fishbine, President of the AMA, at that time, was sentenced to a prison term and the AMA was fined and admonished to cease and desist from their illegal activities. Fishbine didn’t serve his prison term and the fine was not heavy enough to worry the association so they have continued to operate in violation to the law ever since then. Therefore, they are an "outlaw gang."

NEW ANTI-TRUST SUIT AGAINST A.M.A. FILED BY CHIROPRACTORS

On Oct. 12, 1976 an anti-trust suit was filed in Chicago, U.S. District Court, against the American Medical Association. This suit was filed by a group of Chiropractors who have proof that the AMA has, for years, boycotted, libeled, and tried to destroy and eliminate the whole chiropractic profession. Details in an article in SPEARS HOSPITAL NEWS, (Denver, Dec; 1976).

The AMA has not only carried on a continuous fight against Chiropractors, but all drugless fields of healing, most, if not all of which have safer and more successful methods of healing. Some of the drugless methods are not as good as others but, at least, they don’t use poison drugs and knives, so they cannot do the harm that medical methods do.

The medical profession has no safe and sure cure for any disease. I know because I have worked with medical doctors. They hired me for what I knew that they didn’t know. But, in spite of their lack of ability to cure anything, they used dictatorial powers to put out of business and into prisons many drugless doctors who could "cure" what they couldn’t cure.

I know several highly successful health doctors who were practicing under Chiropractic licenses, but were sent to prison for "practicing medicine without a medical license." This was in a state where the medical dictatorship held sway, and they would not allow any other school of healing to practice there, although the drugless doctors achieved better results than they did.

Medical doctors call all other healers "quacks." A quack is one who claims to be able to cure diseases, and takes money for it, and does not "cure" the patients. Doesn’t this description of "quack" fit practically all the medical doctors? They can’t cure cancer; they can’t cure arthritis; they can’t cure colds or anything, but they treat the patients and take their money.

The better drugless doctors have "cured" all these diseases without drugs.

When President Ford rolled up his sleeve and had a shot for advertising purposes, he was making it clear that the government endorsed the vaccine program and he wanted all the people to follow his example and be vaccinated. When a person tells others to take a certain medication he is prescribing medicine. Technically speaking, Ford was practicing medicine without a license. The AMA likes to put people in prison for practicing medicine without a license. The medical associations usually pick on their business rivals, the drugless doctors. Will they put Ford in Prison for committing the same crime they have convicted others for? Or, is there one law for those who oppose the harmful medical methods and another law for those who help promote medical crimes?

2,000,000 DOSES OF DEFECTIVE SWINE FLU VACCINE CONDEMNED

The haphazard and slipshod methods used by the vaccine makers has produced vaccines that have killed and paralyzed hundreds of people already, and no one seems to be supervising them. There are no safeguards, no tests and no proof of safety and effectiveness required of the vaccine makers except what they, the manufacturers, set for themselves.

The Los Angeles Herald Examiner (June, 3/76) published an AP report stating that the experimental "vaccine ready for testing on elderly and high risk cases was found to be defective. As a result, the program would be delayed 6 weeks. The Public Health Service said that 2,000,000 doses will be held in reserve for use if the correct vaccine is in short supply."

They admit it is a bad batch---too dangerous to use---and it is condemned, yet they didn’t destroy it as they should have done. They intend to use it anyway--if they can get away with it---who would know the difference, (seems to be their attitude) as long as they can sell it and make money.

Who will know which of the unlucky people will get the bad vaccine? The vaccinators are not going to tell. Were all those 113 people who died a few hours after the shots given some of the condemned vaccine? Or was it approved vaccine? They’re just as dead with one or the other, as all vaccines are poison---they are purposely designed to cause illness.

The bad batch was not discovered by government inspectors or by the lab technicians making the vaccine, but by another doctor not assigned to that task. We wonder who is supervising the supervisors. Is there another "outsider" sleuthing in all the laboratories which make the vaccine, looking for mistakes that pass as safe vaccine? We think not, as there have been too many casualties for that possibility.

Mistakes are also being made in other laboratories making different vaccines. This has been going on for years. Back in the days when the polio vaccine was being high-pressured on the public, the same Dr. Anthony Morris who is trying to warn us against the dangers of the swine flu vaccine, was doing the same then. He found that some of the polio vaccines were contaminated with SV 40, a virus known to cause cancer in monkeys and hamsters.

It’s frightening to think that all this uncertainty, careless, unscientific guesswork with its deadly hazards passes for safe and scientific vaccination, approved by the government, the schools, the medical boards, the press and then passed on the people as something that they must not question or criticize.

The only way to be safe from these blood poisoning, money making vaccine campaigns is to refuse all shots. Prevention is better than cure; and much can be learned by reading good health books written by qualified health researchers. A few are listed in the bibliography. Don’t be fooled by medical books with health titles. They have misled and mistaught the schools and the general public, for over a century. Medicine is not health. It is a health destroyer. "Preventive" medicine should actually "Prevent" medicines and drugs, and then it would be doing some good.

People are often fooled by, SO called "scientific findings" which are not scientific at all, but are manipulated by schemers, and then bought and paid for to be used as propaganda. The following is from an article in the Los Angeles times (11/26/76). The survey was run by Dr. Ian St. James-Roberts of London. (See page 42)

"MANY FAKE FINDINGS BY SCIENTISTS SEEN"

"Many scientists may be faking their findings, according to a report published Thursday in New Scientist magazine.

"The magazine asked scientists in a questionnaire whether they knew of cases of ‘intentional bias’--- faking results to make experiments appear well conceived and important.

"90% of 200 replies reported knowledge of such cases.

"University scientists proved the worst offenders. Most cheaters were discovered by other scientists trying to duplicate the experiments. But those who replied said the gains from such frauds were often nothing, but in a few cases resulted in promotion.

"Some scientists implied that drug companies encouraged them to cheat by being obsessed with getting positive results, for one forensic scientist said it was not unusual for the police to indicate the sort of forensic (legal procedure) evidence they would prefer."

We wonder what pressures, bribes or other inducements were offered the, so called, scientists to say that the swine flu vaccine was properly tested and safe. Dr. Wecht said people should have been warned that the vaccine could trigger heart attacks, "but this wasn’t done."

Many people who saw through the fraud from the start tried to get warnings in the papers and on T.V. and other channels of communication, but the media turned a deaf ear.

SWINE FLU PROMOTERS TRIED TO CON THE SWINE RAISERS

In the planning stage, the vaccine promoters expected to round up a few cases of flu and stampede the whole world into the vaccination centers like they did for the 1918 flu epidemic. That would be a multi-billion dollar profit, like their lucrative polio vaccine drive. But the world didn’t take the bate this time, and most of the Americans didn’t either. So the promoters thought they would have a ready market with the swine raisers because they had named the vaccine "swine" flu vaccine. They tried to sell 80,000,000 doses of the vaccine to the swine raisers, but they saw through the fraud and turned it down without hesitation, not that hogs don’t have ailments sometimes --they do when they are fed wrong and medicated. But the hog raisers had learned through bitter experience that shots, in previous years, had disastrous effects on their herds and they lost hogs and money from it.

If the hog farmers had enough common sense to refuse the poison shots for their hogs, why couldn’t our high priced President and Congress use some of that common sense and do the same? Aren’t our leaders as interested in Protecting us from the commercial poisons as the farmers are in protecting their pigs?

When the opportunists see a weak president on the "throne" they plan to "use him". When they staged massive polio vaccine drive in the 1950’s they worked on the smiling, affable President Eisenhower and got $9,000,000 to start with, then kept twisting his arm until they wrenched $63,000,000 from him (the taxpayers) to support their killer vaccine campaign.

President Franklin Roosevelt was another "touch." He even let them use him and his infirmity to advertise and sell their polio vaccine.

The same drug houses and vaccine promoters got $100,000,000 from Nixon.

After the polio vaccine drive was over the promoters bragged that they had raked in $5 billion dollars over the several years they kept polio vaccine sales going.

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE UNSWAYED BY MEDICAL PRESSURE

We need strong, intelligent leaders. Where are they now when we need them? President Coolidge set a good example. When the Jones-Parker Bill and the Randall Bill (bills to set up a medical dictatorship within the government, raising the head potentate to the official status and salary of the Surgeon General of the Army) were rushed through Congress in 1928, and were brought before President Calvin Coolidge, he was unmoved by the high pressure medical lobbying. He looked at the bills and stopped them with a Presidential veto. He gave as his reason for this action:

"These bills give a military status to men supposed to be engaged in scientific research."

The plot of medical establishments to set up a medical dictatorship in U.S. goes way back to the Founding Fathers when they were framing the U.S. Constitution. There were quite a number of medical doctors in Congress at that time trying to high pressure a constitutional decree to set up a medical dictatorship. But the wise opposition won. Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Josiah Bartlett were the opposing forces. They convinced Congress that one branch of healing in control would be as bad as one religious sect dominating all the others. That’s exactly what we were fighting against.

George Washington was also a strong President. Even that long ago in 1775 he knew more than our present day doctors do about the harmful effects of vaccination. He issued an order that no man in the Continental Army was to be inoculated. Any enlisted man or officer who submitted to that blood contaminating practice would be dishonorably discharged. He had seen the devastation of smallpox caused by the practice of arm-to-arm inoculation which was introduced from Europe. Edward Jenner and his cow pox abomination did not begin until 1791--16 years later. Both methods caused widespread disease, disability and death until compulsory vaccination was abolished all over the world except in about three backward countries and the U.S. armed services. These are the places which still have outbreaks of the same diseases they vaccinate against. And the diseases are in the vaccinated.

George Washington had enough problems without a lot of vaccine induced disease. Vaccination and inoculation was practiced by the unenlightened as far back as 1,500 years B.C. (See the chapter on HISTORY OF VACCINATION).

What is wrong with our leaders of today. Are their heads turned by bribes or can’t they tell the difference between false propaganda and facts. They are being paid by us to do some home work and investigate before putting our lives and our money on the line.

The following poem sounds a clarion call:

GOD GIVE US MEN

"God give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue and damn his
treacherous flatteries without winking.
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds
Their loud professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, Lo, Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the world, and waiting Justice sleeps.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland

WHAT OUR LEADERS SHOULD HAVE CHECKED ON BEFORE THROWING US TO THE KILLER (VACCINE) SHARKS

(1) First of all, Ford, Congress and the other leaders paid to look after our interests and safety, should have required a guarantee that the vaccine was safe--not deadly. The propaganda of the sales crew said it was safe, but they gave no proof and no guarantee. The sales crew are not authorities; so Ford should have demanded a money back guarantee from the pharmaceutical houses making the vaccine. There should have been written proof of safety and effectiveness before the $135,000,000 was paid. But, the drug houses could not give any proof of safety because they knew it was not safe. Their lab. tests and field tests proved it killed test animals and people. This was not made public.

A number of years ago when the diphtheria toxin-anti-toxin was being promoted, some suspicious people went to the laboratory making the vaccine, and asked for a written guarantee. The lab. refused to give any statement of safety, and admitted that "all vaccines are unstable and unpredictable in their effects, and could never be declared safe."

If Ford and the rest of the government had taken care of that necessary bit of business (making a careful check) before transacting the questionable $135,000,000 deal, then the flu vaccine would have been rejected and the taxpayers would not have been swindled out of the $135 million. Besides that, all those people who were killed by the vaccine would still be alive and happy today.

(2) The promoters said that the vaccine would prevent flu. It didn’t; it caused it.

(3) They said the flu was contagious and the vaccine would protect people. Flu is not contagious. It is caused by the blood poisoning effects of the vaccine itself as well as other kinds of body contamination. Viruses and germs cannot cause disease. (See the chapter on WHY GERMS CANNOT CAUSE DISEASE.)

(4) The vaccine promoters said the blood samples from the man who died at Fort Dix showed viruses like the blood samples from the 1918 flu epidemic and that it could trigger a widespread, deadly epidemic like the previous one.

This is not true because there are no virus-bearing blood samples from the 1918 flu epidemic. That epidemic was 58 years ago and viruses were unknown then. The first swine virus was discovered by a U.S. man in 1931. A British science team isolated the first virus in man in 1933. But, viruses have never been proved to be the cause of disease anyway, although the vaccine makers try to use them as a scare tactic, knowing that they are so small that people can’t see them or prove one way or another if they have any. One dictionary definition of virus is "a morbid poison." A poison is an inert substance. It cannot move about and attack people.

If any blood samples from the 1918 flu epidemic are still on record they would be so dried up and changed in structure that they couldn’t prove anything. Certainly no germs or viruses would be seen.

I have examined fresh blood samples under the microscope in college and saw how rapidly the blood changed in color and structure as it dried on the plate in just a few seconds. A sample 58 years old is a poor excuse for the vaccine promoters to try to rely upon for proof.

Viruses would not have even been mentioned in the medical or lab. reports for the 1918 period because they were unheard of. And besides, they couldn’t be seen with the kind of microscopes they had then.

The flu of 1918 was caused by the conglomeration of diseases which the sinister variety of vaccines brought on. Practically everyone in the world had been propagandized into submitting to all the vaccine that were invented---the surplus stock left over from World War I which was the first war in which all the vaccines were used. The vaccinated got the flu and the unvaccinated didn’t. I was one of the unvaccinated and I didn’t get the flu. I didn’t see an unvaccinated person who got the flu.

QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BEFORE CONSIDERING ANY VACCINATION DRIVE

Ida Honorof, head of PEOPLE AGAINST POLITICAL VACCINATION, tried to get the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors and certain other officials to put pressure on David Mathews of Health, Education and Welfare, and other promoters of the vaccine to answer some important questions before they embarked on the questionable vaccination drive. Mathews was in L.A. to give a talk and his mind was already made up to promote the vaccine. Honorof, confronted him and presented him with the list of questions, but he didn’t answer them and the Supervisors didn’t request him to.

The questions are as follows:

(1) Can you define any benefits derived from the swine flu vaccine? According to the law the benefits must outweigh the risks. (They don’t.)

(2) Will the swine flu vaccine prevent swine flu? (It never has.)

(3) Is it true that if one gets the "shot" will he get an even more severe case of flu? (Yes, and death 113 cases.)

(4)Why were Dr. Morris’ test animals in 4 laboratories destroyed? His test results would have shown the efficacy or hazards of the vaccine.

(5) Did Health, Education and Welfare submit any testimony before the sub-committee on Health and Environment…..at their scheduled hearings, relating to possible hazards of the swine flu vaccinations, names of persons submitting opposing evidence and how many witnesses were heard that opposed the program?

(6) Is there any evidence that a high percentage of those who have the shots will receive no benefits?

(7) Claim is made that 70% of the people who get vaccinated would be protected. Among the unvaccinated 75% would be protected. Explain these contradictions.

(8) Can you give any evidence that a swine flu epidemic exists? (None)

(9) It takes approximately 10 years of testing and research to approve any substance, drug or biological which is to be administered into the human body. If the same standard applies to vaccines why has not the swine flu vaccine been subject to the same tests which the FDA says are necessary before injection into human beings?

(10) Even though the Pharmaceutical insert accompanying the flu vaccine cautions against "injecting intravenously," isn’t it true that there is no control with the jet injector, which explodes the vaccine into the skin with 1,300 pounds pressure--- into tissue space, tissue cells, directly into the arteries, veins, lymph vessels (and right to the heart) thereby producing great destruction, and eventually ending up in the blood stream?

(11) Each of the vaccine manufacturers making the swine flu vaccine (Park-Davis, Merrell, Wyeth, Merck) use a mercury derivative as a preservative. The danger of (the highly poisonous) mercury injected into the body---or inhaled or ingested, etc. is well documented.

(12) Why is the printed form which is presented to persons to sign before getting their shots, read "registration," when Public Law 94-390 specifically stipulates that it be a "consent" form. This was strenuously objected to by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and they asked that said forms be destroyed and not used, since they are definitely not "consent" forms, and are gross violation of the act.

(13) What is the detailed definition and description of swine flu?

(14) Is there really a disease called "swine flu"?

(15) Why wouldn’t vaccine manufacturers produce and distribute the vaccine without indemnification from all the liability for vaccine-caused sickness, disabilities and deaths?

(16) Why did the insurance companies refuse to provide such insurance?

(17) Why were the people and public tax money, made responsible for all liabilities and claims resulting from the sickness, disabilities and deaths caused by the swine vaccine?

(18) Who benefits from the mass vaccination of 215 million Americans?

(19) Is it really necessary or advisable for everyone to get a swine flu vaccination? (No)

So far, the flu promoters have not answered the questions.

DEATH COUNT MAY NEVER BE KNOWN

Up to January 7, 1977 the death count from swine flu vaccine was 113 (people) and paralysis was 139. We have reason to believe that this is only a fraction of the actual casualties. During the polio vaccine drive in the early 1950’s when the shots caused so many deaths and cases of paralysis, Dr. Dale, of the Los Angeles Epidemiology Department, said that for every case that was reported there were an estimated 15 unreported cases. Many vaccine deaths were recorded as from other causes, to conceal the hazards of the vaccine.

During my 30 years of research and writing I have uncovered facts that prove the medical records and death certificates are sometimes deliberately falsified and changed to cover up guilt of doctors and lab. technicians. (See the chapter on FALSIFIED DEATH CERTIFICATES AND MEDICAL RECORDS.) -

All vaccines are poison, and therefore, cause death and disease. This is a known fact, and every vaccination campaign has brought on a large number of disasters. Those of us who knew this, tried to warn the people and ward off the vaccine drive. But the din of the well financed vaccine juggernaut drowned out our cry, and the high pressure advertising scare campaign panicked millions into the vaccination centers. We knew death and disease were inevitable — but none were announced in the papers at first. Therefore, Ida Honorof (head of Citizens Against Political Vaccinations) decided to do what the health officials should have done; she went to the L.A. County coroner and made a check on the deaths. She found that five people there had died within 48 hours after their flu shots. Some were young and didn’t have other ailments that could be blamed for their deaths. The vaccine promoters including the health departments had intended to cover up the vaccine deaths and disasters. But Honorof brought it out in the open. She contacted the National Health Federation (a non medical group which tries to protect the people from health hazards from medical, commercial and political sources. They called a public meeting in Glendale, Calif. where they aired some startling facts about the vaccination campaign and the mounting disasters caused by the poison vaccine. Some of the relatives of the flu victims were there and gave account of the state of health of those who were killed by the vaccine.

After this expose’ the papers had to announce some of the deaths as it was no longer possible to conceal them. The coroner and doctors tried to gloss over it by saying that the deaths were all from heart trouble and they would have died anyway without the shots. Naturally, the heart stops when a person dies from any cause, so heart failure is an "easy out" for the coroner.

For a few days, deaths were announced in the papers until the count rose to 52. Then suddenly the death reports stopped. People got suspicious because the vaccinations were continuing and we knew that all vaccines are poison and that means that people do die from the shots.

Honorof did a little more detective work and learned that Dr. Shirley Fannin, Chief of Acute Disease Control Center of L.A. had met with the vaccine promoters and medical boards to decide what they could do to keep the people from finding out how many were being killed by the vaccine. They decided among themselves not to count as vaccine casualties those who didn’t die suddenly within 48 hours after getting the shots.

This was a shocker. The idea that these poison promoters who were killing the people with wild abandon, had set themselves up to be so high and mighty that they could lay down the law as to what hour people could die, and if they happened to die 49 hours after the shots they would not be dead from their poison vaccine. Dr. Fannis then wrote a letter to the Coroner ordering him to not announce the deaths as vaccine casualties unless they died within her 48 hour time span. This gives us an idea of the tricky business they have been carrying on all through the years, and we didn’t suspect a thing.

The 48 hour "cut off time" of theirs, cuts out those thousands who died a little later. It also cuts out Private David Lewis, the man who died at Fort Dix, New Jersey of what the doctors diagnosed as swine flu. He died more than six weeks after his vaccinations at camp. He was the one and only case of swine flu the doctors have found in the whole world. He was all they had to hang their whole nation-wide swine flu scare on. And now, their own medical decree that it isn’t swine flu unless he dies within 48 hours, knocks out their one and only case. Actually, the official diagnosis by military doctors was that Pvt. Lewis died of A-Victoria flu (vaccine), not swine flu.

Now, without one authentic case of swine flu and without any epidemic except the epidemic of vaccine poisoning, the vaccine promoters and all the doctors who participated in giving or endorsing the shots, as well as the political heads who financed it, are all guilty of hundreds of vaccine deaths--murders. What are we going to do about it? Are there enough honest and concerned officials to prosecute them and make them pay all the damages and then put them out of circulation?

WHO POCKETS THE MONEY?

The arrangement was that the $135,000,000 of the people’s money was for vaccine doses for all the 215 million people in this country, at 50c a shot. So many people were killed and paralyzed by the vaccine that the campaign had to be stopped before a riot broke out to kill all the doctors and vaccine promoters--and a few others. So only a few in the country were vaccinated. Even if we stretch a point and estimate that there were 50,000,000 who had shots, that would be only 25,000,000 dollars used out of the $35,000,000. That leaves $110,000,000 of our money which they, the promoters, still have. Do those doctors and various other crooks intend to pocket the $110 million? It should be returned immediately to the treasury and the vaccine promoters billed for the rest of the $25,000,000 which they took under false pretenses, because there was no epidemic and the vaccine was not safe and all their promises and claims were false.

COMPULSORY ARMY VACCINATIONS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Private David Lewis who died at Fort Dix, supposedly of swine flu, would be alive today if the Army had not violated the law by forcing the poison shots on the soldiers. Our U.S. Constitution gives us the "right to be secure in our persons." Therefore, all enforced vaccination (mass medication) is a violation of our legal rights.

According to Blackstone (the "Bible" of the lawyers): "No laws are binding upon the human subject which assault the body or violate the Conscience."

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

"No right is held more sacred or is more carefully guarded by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others ….

Judge Cooley stated: "The right of one’s person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone."

In the official code book of the U.S. Armed Services titled, UNION CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, we find that there is no compulsory vaccination law in any of the branches of our military services. Therefore, as there is compulsory vaccination law in United States or the military establishment, the enforced vaccinations on our recruits is against their legal rights. Because vaccines are proved to be poisonous and harmful in all cases, the military forces are guilty of malpractice and subject to the laws governing that offense.

One woman I talked to has already sued the Army for $1,000,000 for causing the death of her son as a result of shots at camp. In England, so many outraged parents sued the government for vaccine damages to their sons in the military services, that the government abolished compulsory vaccination in both the military and civilian life. (See the chapter on WHAT VACCINATIONS DID TO OUR SOLDIERS.)

HOW WILL OUR NEW PRESIDENT CARTER HANDLE THE SWINE FLU SWINDLE?

Last Spring (1976) the epidemic makers were in a frantic rush to get President Ford to give them the full payment of $135,000,000 immediately, with no questions asked, no guarantee of safety and with no swine flu epidemic pending, not a case in the world, and they didn’t even have any effective vaccine.

Why the big rush we wondered. The only obvious answer was that the November Presidential election might remove their "pigeon." They knew Ford was easy to manipulate and they wanted to "use him" while they had him on a string. A new president might take a second look and refuse to support their private money making racket.

Now, the election is over and our new President Carter .is left with the ragged ends to clean up, left from Ford’s term. We are wondering how he will handle "Ford’s Folly" and if he will investigate the vaccine scandal and require the guilty ones to repair their damages and return our money they took under false pretenses.

We are hoping that President Carter will not be swayed and dominated by the powerful medical and drug lobby. But one blotch on his past record makes us wonder. We heard that he let himself be controlled by the fluoride promoters and paid them to poison the entire state water system of Georgia. If he is a man for the people why didn’t he investigate the other side, not just the false sales propaganda? Chemists report that "fluoride compounds rank along with cyanide and arsenic in toxicity." Sodium fluoride or hydrofluosilicic acid is the form which is used to poison the public water supplies. Most water supplies already contain calcium fluoride which is also poisonous, but sodium fluoride is 15 times more poisonous than calcium fluoride. A few states such as Texas are working to filter out all the fluoride even the calcium fluoride because they have found by tests that all fluoride is too dangerous for them.

Sodium fluoride is a cheap by-product of the aluminum and fertilizer companies. About the only thing it is good for is rat poison. But their promotion man conceived the idea of selling it to the politicians to dump in the public water supplies. Enough City Council members were "on the take" or weak minded enough to buy the sales propaganda and consequently quite a number of cities and a few states were fluoridated. However, hundreds of them have abandoned the program when it was found, after years of use, that the fluoride was not only expensive, it was damaging to the health and to the water pipes and all equipment that came in contact with the poisoned water.

Their main selling point is that it (fluoride) prevents cavities in children. This is false. Fluorides deteriorate the bony structure of the entire body and make the tooth enamel brittle, thus causing more dental trouble in later years.

FLUORIDATED TOOTH PASTE DANGEROUS

TV commercials saying that fluoridated tooth paste has 20 tests proving that said tooth paste prevents cavities, should be investigated. Some dental associations have been "procured" by the fluoride promoters, and they try to get all the dentists under their influence to endorse fluoridation. But those who dare to tell the truth say fluoride is damaging to the teeth and the general health. The membrane of the mouth is very porous and the poison fluoride in the tooth paste enters the blood almost immediately and causes kidney disease and all kinds of diseases of body poisoning. (See the chapter on FLUORIDATION.)

MEDICINE — ON THE WAY OUT

The study of medicine has never been a science. It creates far more illness than healing. Recovery occurs in spite of the drug treatment because of the internal healing forces within all living organisms which struggle to survive.

Books on the newer knowledge of "nature cure", teaching the underlying fundamentals of health and healing will soon be available to the general public and they will read them and be able to follow the rules and avoid disease. Those who are already ill will be able to "cure" their ailments better than the established medical methods. This will make medicine obsolete — out of date and unpopular.

In closing this chapter I should like to state that all medical men are not guilty of the crimes exposed in this booklet. A few doctors are sincere in their efforts to help their patients. Their weakness is that they are badly trained and dominated by an organization which leads them away from their avowed purpose. There is hope for those who want to learn better ways and help the sick get well. If they don’t try to catch up with the modern "health doctors" and "natural methods" of healing, their patients will outstrip them in knowledge and ability and leave them trailing in the dust.

A BETTER CAMPAIGN

The swine flu vaccine campaign was such an obvious fraud, with no epidemic, not even one authentic case of swine flu anywhere in the world, it makes us wonder about the sanity of the promoters. If they really wanted to combat a growing health disaster why don’t they work against something that is killing millions, such as SMOKING? Tobacco and its smoke contains over 30 poisons, three of which are cancer causing. Over 300.000 people in the United States alone, die from the effects of poisons in tobacco. The great number of cases of tobacco heart, lung cancer, Burgher’s disease (gangrene of the feet caused by smoking), and many other diseases of tobacco poisoning, make smoking the number one killer of today. Smoking kills more in one year than were killed in all our wars from the American Revolution on down to the late Vietnam war, and hardly anyone is trying to stop it. Our government subsidizes the killer tobacco industry because it brings in around $8 billion in revenue. But the damages and disasters caused by smoking (fires, death, disease, etc.) cost this country over $24,000,000,000 (billion) every year.

Ford and our government gave $135 million to support a fake swine flu epidemic which killed and paralyzed hundreds (maybe thousands if we had the "undoctored" records), so why not bring that money back from the medical swindlers and put it into a campaign to get rid of the real killer of men, women and even children. Many children die of tobacco heart because they have to breathe the poison fumes from their smoking parents; also, they learn to smoke early because they see it all the time and think it is all right because their parents smoke. (Read my book, ANSWERS FOR THE WORRIED SMOKER, which tells how to quit without the "cold turkey" method, which is harmful and not too effective. Write to E. McBean, Box 55278 — L.A., Calif. $5.00, postage and tax paid. Deluxe edition.)

Some people are wondering if Chicago ‘s famous Mayor Daily also got a wrong dose of the flu and suddenly died, the same as hundreds of others within hours after their flu shots.

If anyone knows for sure if Mayor Daily had a swine flu shot, please write and give me the such as time, place, who gave the shot, etc.

Thank you, E .McBean

Link to this posting: http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html

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Mexico flu: Your experiences

Mexico City residents leave a clinic wearing protective masks

Readers in Mexico have been emailing the BBC describing the sense of fear gripping the country as a result of a flu virus outbreak, which has so far claimed more than 80 lives.

The World Health Organization says the virus has the potential to become a pandemic.

Read a selection of BBC readers' comments below.

I'm a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue to inevitably die. The truth is that anti-viral treatments and vaccines are not expected to have any effect, even at high doses. It is a great fear among the staff. The infection risk is very high among the doctors and health staff.

There is a sense of chaos in the other hospitals and we do not know what to do. Staff are starting to leave and many are opting to retire or apply for holidays. The truth is that mortality is even higher than what is being reported by the authorities, at least in the hospital where I work it. It is killing three to four patients daily, and it has been going on for more than three weeks. It is a shame and there is great fear here. Increasingly younger patients aged 20 to 30 years are dying before our helpless eyes and there is great sadness among health professionals here.
Antonio Chavez, Mexico City

I am a doctor and I work in the State of Mexico. I don't work in the shock team; I am in the echocardiography team, but I do get some news from my colleagues in the hospital. There have been some cases of young people dying from respiratory infections, but this happened before the alert and they were not reported because the necessary tests weren't done. We doctors knew this was happening a week before the alert was issued and were told to get vaccinated. I went to buy some anti-virals for my husband, who is also a doctor, because he had contact with a young patient who presented influenza symptoms and died. I don't think pharmacies stock enough anti-virals.

I understand the government doesn't want to generate panic, but my personal opinion is that they issued the alert too late. Still now, the population is not getting the information they need. We have been out in the street and some people are not wearing face masks and are not taking any preventive measures.

Guadalupe, Mexico City

Friends working in hospitals say that the situation is really bad, they are talking about 19 people dead in Oaxaca, including a doctor and a nurse
Alvaro Ricardez, Oaxaca City

I think there is a real lack of information and sadly, preventative action. In the capital of my state, Oaxaca, there is a hospital closed because of a death related to the porcine influenza. In the papers they recognise only two people dead for that cause. Many friends working in hospitals or related fields say that the situation is really bad, they are talking about 19 people dead in Oaxaca, including a doctor and a nurse. They say they got shots but they were told not to talk about the real situation. Our authorities say nothing. Life goes on as usual here.

Young people are going to schools and universities. Buses and planes go and come from Mexico City as frequently as before. Even with two people dead locally, last night the local baseball stadium was full, mainly with young people. What's really happening? I know vaccines are good for nothing, and if you take care, maybe you won't die, so, why not acknowledge the real situation? I know that the economic situation is not the best, and it will worsen with panic. But panic comes from a lack of information. Many people travel for pleasure or without any real need. Stopping those unjustified trips can help a lot to ease the situation. We must do something!
Alvaro Ricardez, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico

The truth is that it is very strange, what we are living through here. The streets are empty, we are all staying in our houses. People are only going out to the hospitals, drugstores and to buy food. The great majority have their mouths covered. Concerts, festivals, masses have all been cancelled, the football matches have all been played behind closed doors. On the television and radio, every commercial break contains information on the symptoms, saying that if you have them to go to the doctor at once. Although we have been told to go to work as normal on Monday, I am worried because I am employed at a company where there are many people and believe that it could be highly contagious. They say on the news that the cases that are most critical involve people aged 20 to 50.
Nallely T, State of Mexico

Everyone is very frightened, there are few people on the streets and we are all trying to be as safe as possible
Mariana, Mexico City

Right now the situation is quite scary. We've never been living under such circumstances and it's caught us completely off guard. We are a developing country so our health system isn't very effective, plus the fact that our city is overpopulated doesn't help much; the government is doing what they can but I don't think it's enough. So the future isn't looking too bright. Everyone is very frightened, there are few people on the streets and we are all trying to be as safe as possible. But not knowing exactly how the virus works and how it can be killed off creates a horrible uncertainty. I'm being pessimistic but that's how most people I've talked to feel.
Mariana, Mexico City

It's certainly been very quiet where I'm living in the Historic Centre of Mexico City, whereas normally the centre is almost uncomfortably packed at the weekend. Most people also seem to be wearing the face masks being handed out by the army around the city. There always seems to be a healthy mistrust of the government here, but I wouldn't say I'm sensing a great deal of paranoia or panic. It does seem as though the unprecedented actions being taken by the government to contain the virus don't match with the statistics being provided, however, so there is some doubt as to whether they're just being overly cautious or whether things are a lot worse than what they're telling the public.
Randal Sheppard, Mexico City

Right now, things are far from under control here. All the museums, zoos, and concert venues have been closed. Masses, football games, sporting activities, cultural activities, have all been cancelled. All schools will be closed until 6 May, from kindergarten to university. We don't know what to think, the truth is that the government isn't telling us the truth. This case is worst than we think, some people take this just like a joke but not me, this is serious! Als it seems clear that this illness doesn't appear to be affecting the whole country, just Mexico City, the State of Mexico and San Luis Potosi.
Carla, Mexico City

I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control". As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.
Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City

The situation in Mexico City is really not normal. There is a sense of uncertainty that borders on paranoid behaviour in some cases. At this very moment, Mexican TV is showing how military forces are giving masks to the people in the streets. Moreover the news is sending alarming messages for the audience. Really, the atmosphere in the city is unsettling, a good example: pubs and concerts are being closed or cancelled and people don't haven thorough information. In this city (and country) there is an urgent need for assertive information, no paranoid messages from the government or the Mexican media.
Patricio Barrientos and Aranzazu Nuñez, Mexico City

Massive events have been cancelled at the National Auditorium - Mexico City's largest indoor venue with capacity of 10,000 - which has been closed. Two soccer games have been cancelled at the Olympic Stadium. A sold out game with 70,000 expected attendance will be played behind closed doors. Another game at the famous Azteca Stadium that would draw an attendance of 50,000 will also be played behind closed doors.
Juan Carlos Leon Calderon, Mexico City

It's eerily quiet here in the capital. Lots of people with masks, Facebook communities exchanging gallows humour, everybody waiting to see if schools and universities will stay closed for ten days (as goes the rumour). All masks have been used up, and we are waiting for new supplies.
Dr Duncan Wood, Mexico City

We will be sick soon and, well, do the math - 400 can infect at least another two per day
Adriana, Mexico City

Yesterday in my office it was a bit surreal walking in to see all in blue masks with deep cleansing of computer equipment and surfaces going on. Let's hope it is contained and does not escalate. The local news is reporting 200 fatalities and reports of flu spreading from areas outside of Mexico City. Given the volume of daily commuter traffic on cramped busses and trains, this may not have to be too virulent to be disastrous in human terms. I wonder what controls there will be on flights in and out.
Will Shea, Mexico City

I work for the government as a head of a computer infrastructure operations department. At work we are doing several actions to try not to expose workers. We sent several home. I support the Pumas football team and the very important match with the Guadalajara team will be played behind closed doors. My family and I are going to stay home all weekend. We feel a little scared and confused with the feeling that we are not given being told the truth. Many people think the numbers of dead people is higher than we are being told.
Marcos, Mexico City

The whole city is affected, I have a very bad feeling about this. Two of my friends at work are sick, they were sick for a couple of days, they went to the hospital and they sent them back to work. The doctor told them it was just a flu until Friday when the alarm was spread, then they were allowed to go home. I work in a call centre and I'm worried because there are no windows in the building so it cannot be ventilated and around 400 people work there.

We all have talked to our supervisor but no one has done anything not even sterilise or disinfect the area. We will be sick soon and, well, do the math - 400 can infect at least another two per day. The authorities say there's nothing they can do since it's a private company and I can assure you, the company I work for is not the only one like this in the whole city. Us workers don't have much protection from our government and if we want to keep our jobs we have to go anyway.
Adriana, Mexico City

My sister got influenza like symptoms two weeks ago. She is fine now, thank god, but similar cases have been showing up since two weeks ago. I work for a bank and we were told to take our laptops because there is a high possibility to work from home. I have gone out to buy some face masks.
Ruben Farfan, Mexico City

I'm a college student in Mexico City, and I can only say that the information that the media has provided doesn't seem to be enough, we do not now how serious it is because they have failed to mention it. There have been two ways of responding to this event, the ones that have entered themselves into quarantine claiming that the government is hiding something much more serious, and those who take this as a joke saying that everyone is overreacting. To put a cherry on top all kind of crazy rumours are flying around - that they are going to quarantine Mexico City, that a school and some specific branches of offices and jobs are going to be suspended for days to come, and so on. I wish more info was available, for example how to prevent it? Have there been many deaths? Is there a threat of an epidemic?
Mari A, Mexico City

I didn't hear about the flu epidemic until last night at 2330. Yesterday the streets were almost empty compared to a normal Friday afternoon. The media is bombarding the same information over and over again, but the authorities haven't said anything new yet, only that they have enough vaccines for those with the flu and that we should avoid public spaces.
Paulina, Mexico City

This is another blow to the tourism industry in Mexico, even though non of the events that is taken place is anywhere near the tourist areas of Cancun, Playa del Carmen or Puerto Vallarta, the news comes across as all of Mexico is affected! After wrong reports of drug related violence, military presence etc. in Cancun, which hurt the industry tremendously, now people think that all of Mexico is affected by a virus that is mostly present in the capital. I guess the problem is that this is a country where the capital carries the same name as the country, thus when people hear news about Mexico, albeit it refers to Mexico City, they assume it is affecting the whole country.
Rainer, Cancun

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No Mexico on the list - Bit slow about warning the public let alone closing the border !!!

Current Travel Warnings

Travel Warnings are issued to describe long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable. A Travel Warning is also issued when the U.S. Government's ability to assist American citizens is constrained due to the closure of an embassy or consulate or because of a drawdown of its staff. The countries listed below meet those criteria.

Yemen 04/24/2009
Georgia 04/09/2009
Sudan 04/08/2009
Central African Republic 04/01/2009
Colombia 03/25/2009
Madagascar 03/17/2009
Saudi Arabia 03/04/2009
Algeria 03/04/2009
Pakistan 02/25/2009
Eritrea 02/18/2009
Syria 02/12/2009
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 02/05/2009
Haiti 01/28/2009
Philippines 01/27/2009
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza 01/15/2009
Burundi 01/08/2009
Sri Lanka 12/22/2008
Cote d'Ivoire 12/15/2008
Nigeria 12/02/2008
Nepal 11/21/2008
Somalia 11/15/2008
Chad 11/14/2008
Kenya 11/14/2008
Iran 09/15/2008
Lebanon 09/10/2008
Afghanistan 09/10/2008
Uzbekistan 07/03/2008
Iraq 06/13/2008

Link to this posting: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html

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Mexico City shuts down to beat virus

Correspondents in Mexico City | April 27, 2009
Article from: The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au

THE metropolis of Mexico City and its 20 million residents are increasingly fearful as suspected swine flu deaths grow, and world health officials warn that the capital could be at the epicentre of a global epidemic.

Everything from concerts to sports matches and church services were cancelled yesterday to keep people from congregating and spreading the virus in large crowds.

President Felipe Calderon assumed new powers to isolate people infected with the deadly swine flu strain that Mexico's Health Minister says has killed up to 81 people and probably sickened 1324 since April 13.

Mexican soldiers and health workers patrolled airports and bus stations looking for people showing symptoms, which include a fever of more than 38C, body aches, coughing, a sore throat, respiratory congestion and, in some cases, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Markets and restaurants were nearly empty. And throngs of Mexicans - some with just a fever - rushed to hospitals.

Mexico appears to have lost valuable days or weeks in detecting the new flu strain, a combination of pig, bird and human viruses that humans may have no natural immunity to. Health officials have found cases in 16 Mexican states.

Mexican authorities ordered schools closed in the capital and the states of Mexico and San Luis Potosi until May 6, and the Catholic Church announced the cancellation of Sunday masses in the capital.

A team from the Centres for Disease Control arrived in Mexico to help set up detection testing for the swine flu strain, something Mexico previously lacked.

Health authorities started noticing a threefold spike in flu cases in late March and early April, but they thought it was a late rebound in the December-February flu season.

Testing at domestic labs did not alert doctors to the new strain. Health Secretary Jose Cordova acknowledged Mexican labs lacked the necessary profiling data to detect the previously unknown strain.

The first death occurred in southern Oaxaca state on April 13, but Mexico did not send the first of 14 mucous samples to the CDC until April 18, about the time it dispatched teams to hospitals looking for patients with severe flu or pneumonia-like symptoms.

Those teams noticed something strange: the flu was killing people aged 20 to 40. Flu victims are usually either infants or the elderly. The Spanish flu pandemic, which killed at least 40million people worldwide in 1918-19, also first struck otherwise healthy young adults.

Even though US labs detected the swine flu in California and Texas before last weekend, Mexican authorities as recently as Wednesday were referring to it as a late-season flu.

But mid-afternoon Thursday, Mexico City Health Secretary Dr Armando Ahued said, officials got a call "from the United States and Canada, the most important laboratories in the field, telling us this was a new virus"

Asked why there were so many deaths in Mexico, and none so far among the US cases, Mr Cordova noted that the US cases involved children - who haven't been among the fatal cases in Mexico either. "There are immune factors that are giving children some sort of defence, that is the only explanation we have," he said.

Another factor may be that some Mexican patients may have delayed seeking medical help too long, Mr Cordova said.

AP

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PIG HUMAN BIRD FLU MAP

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We can't contain outbreak, scientists warn

Correspondents in Washington | April 27, 2009
Article from: The Australian

THE multi-strain swine flu virus is widespread and cannot be contained, US health authorities said yesterday.

"With infections in many different communities as we're seeing, we don't think containment is feasible," Anne Schuchat of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

"We are not at a point where we can keep this virus in one place ... Now we are looking more widely, I really expect us to find more cases."

The CDC is focusing on the transmissibility of the virus, noting that influenza is generally quite transmissible. The outbreak is a "serious situation" with a "pandemic potential", it says.

"We are worried, and because we are worried we are working aggressively on a number of fronts," said Ms Schuchat, the interim deputy director for the CDC's science and public health program.

"It is clear this is widespread. And that's why we have let you know we cannot contain the spread of this virus."

Scientists are baffled and deeply worried by the outbreak for two reasons: it appears to combine bird, swine and human viruses in a way that has not been seen before, and it is spreading from person to person.

Although swine flu has been known to sporadically infect people, this has usually occurred in rare cases in which the virus jumps from swine to humans who are directly exposed to the animals, such as pig farmers.

The virus that has surfaced in Mexico - and reportedly in California and Texas - is known as A/H1N1 and is a strain that has not been previously detected in pigs or humans. According to the CDC, cases of person-to-person jump have been documented.

An apparent swine-flu infection in the US in 1988 was transmitted from a patient to healthcare workers who were in close contact with the person.

However, neither of the two California children diagnosed with the illness this northern spring had close contact with pigs. This, Ms Schuchat said, "increases the possibility that human-to-human transmission of this new influenza has occurred".

Not all pandemics are lethal, and it is far from clear whether the swine flu infecting people could be the beginnings of a global outbreak.

But the World Health Organisation is worried enough that it has alerted an expert panel that can recommend whether to raise the alert level for a global pandemic.

New viral strains arise through a process called antigenic shift, or reassortment, when at least two viruses combine. This can happen when a cell is infected by two different flu viruses and some of their genes are exchanged during replication.

Pigs are especially prone to be such "mixing vessels", since they can be infected by viruses that infect swine, birds and humans. Reassortment is often seen in water birds, especially ducks. Although these birds do not show symptoms, they shed the virus in their faeces - which could go on to infect pigs or possibly humans who come in close contact.

(MM notes Ducks and water fowl/foul live on our waterways and Dams ducks foul crap in your drinking water boil your water for 3 to 5 minutes...cool it AND STORE IT, BOIL YOUR CLOTHES, BOIL YOUR FOOD DONT EAT PORK HAM BACON CHICKEN OR DUCK

( FISH AND BEEF AND LAMB and rabbit ARE SAFE FOR NOW )

WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL EVERYONE HAS A 24 HOUR DEADLINE...

Wash your hands 'everytime' you shake hands etc dont share cups or mugs...

Dont let kids share toys, computers, mouses, pens and pencils, (wipe everything ) the fridge and freezer, remote controls, games, phones, doorknobs, steering wheel, gear shifts, handles DO NOT touch shopping trolleys OR MONEY ATMS take wipes... keep to yourself, keep your distance, cover your mouth and nose... KEEP away from crowds...

Cook your food..stock up...take salt chilli ginger vinegar and honey and garlic... and if your coughing and spluttering keep away from your family

Get disinfectant and bleach and bagged pool salt

Keep away from Public houses cinemas pools halls etc

IF/when IT GETS BAD NOMINATE ONE PERSON to KEEP AWAY FROM THE REST AND STAY IN the GARAGE DO DROP OFFS AND PICK UPS SPRAY everything fresh with salt and vinegar dry in sunlight then boil it where possible (without prejudice rely on your own common sense and judgement)

The CDC said some of the genetic segments of the current swine-flu virus come from bird-flu viruses found in North America, plus one gene segment from a human-flu virus and two gene segments typically seen in pig-flu viruses in Europe and Asia.

Symptoms are similar to those found in seasonal human flu, including fever, respiratory symptoms, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. For treatment, the virus is sensitive to oseltamivir, a medication whose brand name is Tamiflu, and zanamivir, or Relenza.

New viruses that emerge this way - through antigenic shift - have in the past been the cause of pandemics because they infect populations that have no immunity to the bug.

Past pandemics, such as one that appeared in Asia in 1957 and another that surfaced in Hong Kong in 1968, originated from flu viruses in birds.

In recent years, public health experts have been fearful about a potential pandemic triggered by the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which has spread from poultry to humans and killed several hundred people since 2003.

Link to this posting: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25391069-2703,00.html

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Thursday, February 4, 1999 Published at 12:46 GMT

Health

Race to find key to killer flu

The graves of victims of the 1918 flu pandemic

Scientists around the world are in race against time to find the secret of flu pandemics that wipe out millions.

The BBC's Fiona Gammie on flu pandemics
The worst one this century was in 1918 and experts fear another one could be just around the corner.

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 40 million people - more people than died in the First World War - and was the biggest infection in history.

Many of its victims were young, fit people. The virus killed in an unusual way, by flooding the lungs with fluid and causing haemorrhaging.

It died out as mysteriously as it began.

But despite the pandemic's impact, scientists still do not know what caused it.

One expert called it "an 80-year-old murder mystery".

Imminent

Scientists believe that finding out what caused the pandemic could help prevent future outbreaks.

The next pandemic is thought to be imminent.

Jeffery Taubenberger, a US military pathologist, said: "It is 100% sure that we will have a pandemic in the future."

The nearest the world came to a pandemic in recent years is thought to be the Hong Kong avian flu of 1998.

Six people died and hundreds fell ill after the virus was passed on from chickens to man.

The virus in the chickens caused mass haemorrhaging, leaving them in a bloody pulp.

The authorities reacted quickly, removing the chickens in plastic bags.

Fears that the world may not react so quickly to another potential pandemic, leading to millions of deaths, are behind several recent attempts to trace the source of the 1918 pandemic.

Unlocking the secrets

Two attempts are covered in a BBC Horizon programme.

The two could not be more different.

[ image: Dr Jeffery Taubenberger: there will definitely be another flu pandemic]

Dr Jeffery Taubenberger: there will definitely be another flu pandemic

One involves a £250,000 high-publicity search by a team of experts on a Norwegian island.

The other is a lone attempt by a pathologist who began work on the pandemic in the 1950s.

Both are trying to find tissue from the preserved bodies of people who died from the 1918 pandemic in order to unlock its secrets.

Dr Kirsty Duncan, a geographer and Highland dancer, was inspired to set up the Norwegian expedition after reading a book by Dr Johan Hultin - the man behind the Alaskan attempt.

Dr Hultin first went to Alaska in the 1950s.

He wanted to find lung tissue from dead victims of the 1918 pandemic and believed the permafrost in Alaska would have preserved the bodies so that tissue could be taken.

He took lung tissue back to his laboratory with the intention of trying to make a flu vaccine.

The tissue was injected into the nostrils of ferrets in the hope that they would catch the 1918 virus.

However, the experiment failed because the virus was not live.

Dr Duncan read about his attempts and was inspired to collect together a "dream team" of scientific experts on flu to try to recreate Dr Hultin's experiment.

She tracked down the death records of seven miners who were buried in the permafrost on a Norwegian island.

Although some of the experts were worried that bringing the virus into the world of the 1990s could be dangerous if it was not totally isolated, the experiment went ahead.

A team of experts tried to dig up the bodies and managed to obtain some tissue samples.

Young soldier

At the same time as Dr Duncan's team was at work, Jeffery Taubenberger was searching military archives to find out more about the 1918 pandemic.

[ image: Dr Kirsty Duncan: inspired by Dr Holten to crack the flu mystery]

Dr Kirsty Duncan: inspired by Dr Holten to crack the flu mystery

Eventually, he tracked down one soldier, Private Roscoe Vaughan, who died on his way to the Western Front.

He had contracted a fever of 103 degrees, pneumonia and chills and turned blue.

Within five days of becoming ill, he was dead.

Dr Taubenberger found that his left lung had traces of pneumonia, but his right lung still showed the initial stages of infection.

This was important for Dr Taubenberger's attempts to trace the genetic sequence of the virus.

His team tried to rebuild the genes in the virus' make-up, but some were missing.

Dr Taubenberger needed more tissue. He published an article about his research and was surprised to receive a response from Dr Hultin.

Dr Hultin volunteered to return to Alaska in 1997 to try to find more tissue.

He got permission from native Americans living there to dig up some of the bodies of people who died in the 1918 pandemic.

[ image: Dr Holten's expedition to Alaska was
Dr Holten's expedition to Alaska was "unfinished business"
Living on tundra berries and in primitive conditions, he began work on his "unfinished business".

And eventually he struck gold. He found the body of a woman - whom he named Lucy.

The body was well preserved because Lucy had been very fat and her body was therefore slow to decay.

His expedition cost £1,940. Dr Taubenberger said his contribution had been "amazing".

The research into the virus is still continuing and scientists hope they will be able to understand how a virus becomes a pandemic before the next one comes around.

'Pandemic', part of the Horizon strand, is on BBC2 on Thursday at 2130 GMT.

Link to this posting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/272081.stm

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From the Los Angeles Times
SWINE FLU OUTBREAK

11 more suspected swine flu cases in U.S.

Total reaches 19 with a couple in Kansas, schoolchildren in New York City and a person in California believed to have mild cases of swine flu. It is not clear yet whether virus is easily transmitted.

By Thomas H. Maugh II

April 26, 2009

Kansas health authorities had confirmed two new cases of swine flu in their state, California has confirmed another case in Imperial County and New York City officials have identified eight probable cases, bringing the U.S. total to 19 likely cases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had previously identified six cases in San Diego and Imperial counties and two cases in Guadalupe County, Texas.

The Kansas patients are a couple in Dickinson County. The husband had traveled to Mexico recently, flying out of the Wichita airport. Neither of them was hospitalized, and one has already recovered.

The new case brings the total in California to three cases in Imperial County and four in San Diego. The latest case is a 35-year-old woman who developed symptoms April 4. She was hospitalized and has recovered fully.

In New York, the suspected cases occurred among students at St. Francis Preparatory School, a private high school in Queens. At least 25 of the students had been out sick with influenza symptoms at the end of the week.

The city health department's Public Health Laboratory has completed preliminary screens on nose and throat swabs from nine of the students and found that eight are influenza A. Because they do not match normal human subtypes of influenza A currently in circulation, they are considered probable cases of swine flu.

The samples have been sent to the CDC in Atlanta for confirmation.

All of the cases were mild, and none of the students was hospitalized. The school will be closed Monday as a precaution.

Students at the school had told news outlets that some of them had traveled to Mexico recently, but that has not been confirmed by health officials.

The U.S. cases are in addition to the outbreak in Mexico, which has caused as many as 60 deaths and more than 1,000 infections. U.S. tests on virus samples from 14 Mexican patients confirm that about half of them are swine flu.

The problem in identifying swine flu is that its symptoms are virtually indistinguishable from regular influenza, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of CDC. The only way to be sure an infection is swine flu is through a laboratory test, which takes time.

Because the virus has popped up in so many locations, there is likely to be a larger outbreak if the virus proves to be highly transmissible -- something that has not been demonstrated yet.

"Having found the virus where we have found it, we are likely to find it in many more places," Schuchat said Saturday. "It is clear that this is widespread, which is why we do not think we can contain spread of this virus."

The ability of the virus to spread from person to person means that there is the potential for a pandemic, Dr. Margaret Char, director general of the World Health Organization, said Saturday. But experts noted that any new virus that can be transmitted among humans has such potential, and much more information is needed.

Chan returned to Geneva from the United States to monitor the ongoing swine flu problem and called an emergency meeting Saturday of the agency's influenza experts and consultants. That group said there is not yet enough information to justify raising the agency's alert system to a higher level and imposing travel or other restrictions.

But Chan did declare a "public health emergency" recommending that all nations increase their surveillance for the swine flu virus.

Officials noted that the new virus is susceptible to two of the four antiviral drugs now available and that both Mexico and the United States have ample stocks of the drugs.

CDC officials have prepared a seed stock of the virus that could be used in the manufacture of a vaccine, but said that it is premature to send it to pharmaceutical companies. Preparing a new vaccine would require several months, at best.

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Killer pig flu threat to UK: BA crew member rushed to hospital as 68 die in outbreak

By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 1:03 AM on 26th April 2009

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* Pig flu virus may have killed 68 people
* 900 others thought to have been infected
* BA crew member on Mexico flight rushed to hospital
* Source of the outbreak is not yet known
* Travellers with symptoms warned to contact GP
* Tamiflu and Relenza both effective against the illness

Fears are growing that a deadly human strain of 'swine flu' that has claimed 68 lives in Mexico has arrived in Britain.

A British Airways cabin crew member yesterday complained of 'flu-like symptoms' midway through a flight to Heathrow from Mexico City, where the virus first surfaced.

Last night the unnamed man, understood to be a British national, was in isolation in a West London hospital and was being treated by staff trained in infectious disease controls.

Earlier, panic spread throughout Mexico, where those who died were reported to be the first victims of a pandemic with the potential to kill millions.

Experts said the virus posed the biggest threat of a pandemic since bird flu began to spread in 2003.

That has killed 256 people in 15 countries.

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Mexico flu deaths raise fears of global epidemic
Unique virus connected to cases in Calif. and Texas; source still a mystery

msnbc.com news services
updated 7:26 p.m. ET April 24, 2009

Mexico shut down schools, museums, libraries and state-run theaters across its overcrowded capital Friday in hopes of containing a swine flu outbreak that authorities say killed at least 20 people — and perhaps dozens more. World health authorities worried openly that the strange new virus could become a global epidemic.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said tests show some of the Mexico victims died from the same new strain of swine flu that sickened eight people in Texas and California. Of the 14 samples tested from Mexico, seven were matches, said the CDC's acting director Dr. Richard Besser.

Mexico put the confirmed toll at 20 dead, but 40 other fatalities were being probed, and at least 943 nationwide were sick from the suspected flu, the health department said.

Scientists said the virus combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before.

“We are very, very concerned,” World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said.

“We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human,” he said. “It’s all hands on deck at the moment.”

President Felipe Calderon cancelled a trip and met with his Cabinet to coordinate Mexico’s response. The government planned to administer its remaining 500,000 vaccines from the flu season to health workers, the highest risk group, although it is not known how effective they are on swine flu. It said it also has enough oseltamivir, the generic name of Tamiflu, to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.

The CDC says Tamiflu and Relenza do seem effective against the new strain. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested. Both drugs must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective.

Authorities urged people to avoid hospitals unless they had a medical emergency, since hospitals are centers of infection.

They also said Mexicans should refrain from customary greetings such as shaking hands or kissing cheeks, and authorities at Mexico City’s international airport were questioning passengers to try to prevent anybody with possible influenza from boarding airplanes and spreading the disease.

But the CDC said Americans need not avoid traveling to Mexico, as long as they take the usual precautions, such as frequent handwashing.

“We certainly have 60 deaths that we can’t be sure are from the same virus, but it is probable,” said Health Secretary Jose Cordova. He called it a “new, different strain ... that originally came from pigs.”

Epidemiologists are particularly concerned because the only people killed so far were normally less-vulnerable young people and adults. It’s possible that more vulnerable populations — infants and the aged — had been vaccinated against other strains, and that those vaccines may be providing some protection.

All eight U.S. patients recovered from symptoms that were like those of the regular flu, mostly involving fever, cough and sore throat, though some of them also experienced vomiting and diarrhea.

Scientists have long been concerned that a new flu virus could launch a pandemic, a worldwide spread of a killer disease. A new virus could evolve when different flu viruses infect a pig, a person or a bird, mingling their genetic material. The resulting hybrid could spread quickly because people would have no natural defenses against it.

40 million died in 1918 pandemic
The most notorious flu pandemic is thought to have killed at least 40 million people worldwide in 1918-19. Two other, less deadly flu pandemics struck in 1957 and 1968.

Nobody can predict when pandemics will happen. Scientists had been concerned about swine flu in 1976, for example, and some 40 million Americans were vaccinated. No flu pandemic ever appeared, but thousands of vaccinated people filed claims saying they’d suffered a paralyzing condition and other side effects from the shots.

In recent years, scientists have been particularly concerned about birds. There have been deaths from bird flu, mostly in Asia, but the virus has so far been unable to spread from person to person easily enough to touch off a pandemic.

Closing the schools across Mexico City, a metropolis of 20 million, kept 6.1 million students home from day care centers through high schools, and thousands more were affected as colleges and universities closed down. Parents scrambled to juggle work and family concerns due to what local media said was the first citywide schools closure since Mexico City’s devastating 1985 earthquake.

Authorities also advised capital residents not to go to work if they felt ill, and to wear surgical masks if they had to move through crowds. A wider shutdown — perhaps including shutting down government offices — was being considered.

“It is very likely that classes will be suspended for several days,” Cordova said. “We will have to evaluate, and let’s hope this doesn’t happen, the need to restrict activity at workplaces.”

Past outbreaks
Mexico’s initial response in its overcrowded capital brought to mind other major outbreaks — such as when SARS hit Asia. At its peak in 2003, Beijing was the hardest-hit city in the world. Schools, cinemas and restaurants were shuttered to prevent the spread the deadly respiratory virus, and thousands of people were quarantined at home.

In March 2008, Hong Kong ordered more than a half million young students to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak. It was the first such closure in Hong Kong since the outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Lillian Molina and other teachers at the Montessori’s World preschool scrubbed down their empty classrooms with Clorox, soap and Lysol on Friday between fielding calls from worried parents. While the school has had no known cases among its students, Molina supported the government’s decision to shutter classes, especially in preschools.

“It’s great they are taking precautions,” she said. “I think it’s a really good idea.”

Still, U.S. health officials said it’s not yet a reason for alarm in the United States. The six in California and two in Texas have all recovered, and testing indicates some common antiviral medications seem to work against the virus.

New strain has swine, bird and human viruses
Schuchat of the CDC said officials believe the new strain can spread human-to-human, which is unusual for a swine flu virus. The CDC is checking people who have been in contact with the eight confirmed U.S. cases, who all became ill between late March and mid-April.

The U.S. cases are a growing medical mystery because it’s unclear how they caught the virus. The CDC said none of the eight people were in contact with pigs, which is how people usually catch swine flu. And only a few were in contact with each other.

The virus was first detected in two children in southern California — a 10-year-old boy in San Diego County and a 9-year-old girl in neighboring Imperial County.

The cases were detected under unusual circumstances. One was seen at a Navy clinic that participates in a specialized disease detection network, and the other was caught through a specialized surveillance system set up in border communities, CDC officials said.

Investigators have since discovered six more cases. That includes a father and his teenage daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old woman in Imperial County who was the only person hospitalized, and two 16-year-old boys who are friends and live in Guadalupe County, Texas, near San Antonio.

Puzzling cases
The Texas cases are especially puzzling. One of the California cases — the 10-year-old boy — traveled to Texas early this month, but that was to Dallas, about 270 miles northeast of San Antonio. He did not travel to the San Antonio area, Schuchat said.

The two 16-year-olds had not traveled recently, Texas health officials said.

No details were available about the eighth victim, a child from San Diego.

CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of gene segments not seen in people or pigs before. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.

Health officials have seen mixes of bird, pig and human virus before, but never such an intercontinental combination with more than one pig virus in the mix.

Scientists keep a close eye on flu viruses that emerge from pigs. The animals are considered particularly susceptible to both avian and human viruses and a likely place where the kind of genetic reassortment can take place that might lead to a new form of pandemic flu, said Dr. John Treanor, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The virus may be something completely new, or it may have been around for a while but was only detected now because of improved lab testing and disease surveillance, CDC officials said.

It’s not known if the seasonal flu vaccine Americans got this winter protects against this type of virus. People should wash their hands and take other precautions, CDC officials said.

Antivirals ready if needed
Officials from the World Health Organization said on Friday that it was prepared with "rapid containment measures" including antivirals if needed to combat the swine flu outbreaks in Mexico and the United States.

But health authorities in the two countries have the resources required already in place and are "well equipped," WHO spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi said in Geneva.

She said the United Nations agency saw no need at this point to issue travel advisories warning travelers not to go to parts of Mexico or the United States. WHO says it is in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its command and control center for acute public health events.

The WHO will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee on international health regulations, probably on Saturday afternoon, she added.

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