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Swine flu outbreak: financial conspiracy
Tyler Vogler
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Opinion
Nonessential travel to Mexico from the United States has been restricted. Governments around the world are taking all kinds of precautions to stop the pandemic's spread, including Russia and China banning U.S. pork imports.
President Barack Obama stated the swine flu situation is cause for "concern," but not "panic," but you wouldn't know it by the amount of media attention the supposed-"pandemic" is receiving.
Get a grip. This is no pandemic - it is the business of fear.
According to a National Public Radio report Tuesday, only 149 people have died of swine flu, all in Mexico. There are only 48 confirmed U.S. cases, all of which are suspected to have contracted the flu while in Mexico.
These infection rates are extremely low, but the global reaction is branding any country with an outbreak as completely hazardous, no matter how small the numbers and how isolated the cases may be.
Remember SARS? Remember the avian flu? Both were touted as pandemics in the making, capable of killing millions and crippling world economies and governments.
After the initial media attention died down, however, both "pandemics" passed largely unnoticed. The current situation with the swine flu is just the next in a line of would-be
pandemics.
While some say the World Health Organization's actions are simply cautionary, the drastic measures the organization is taking are causing a global panic.
In any kind of medical outbreak situation, people look for the "silver bullet" cure-all pill that will make the problem go away. Unfortunately, one does not exist.
Currently, it is suggested that Tamiflu and Rolenza (oseltamivir and zanamivir, respectively) are the only antiviral medications to be used in swine flu cases to avoid drug resistance. Annual flu vaccinations do not protect against swine flu because the virus strains are different.
In response to the swine flu situation, Roche, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures Tamiflu, have beefed up production rates of the drug. The WHO announced it has enough stockpiled to treat about 5 million cases.
President Barack Obama stated the swine flu situation is cause for "concern," but not "panic," but you wouldn't know it by the amount of media attention the supposed-"pandemic" is receiving.
Get a grip. This is no pandemic - it is the business of fear.
According to a National Public Radio report Tuesday, only 149 people have died of swine flu, all in Mexico. There are only 48 confirmed U.S. cases, all of which are suspected to have contracted the flu while in Mexico.
These infection rates are extremely low, but the global reaction is branding any country with an outbreak as completely hazardous, no matter how small the numbers and how isolated the cases may be.
Remember SARS? Remember the avian flu? Both were touted as pandemics in the making, capable of killing millions and crippling world economies and governments.
After the initial media attention died down, however, both "pandemics" passed largely unnoticed. The current situation with the swine flu is just the next in a line of would-be
pandemics.
While some say the World Health Organization's actions are simply cautionary, the drastic measures the organization is taking are causing a global panic.
In any kind of medical outbreak situation, people look for the "silver bullet" cure-all pill that will make the problem go away. Unfortunately, one does not exist.
Currently, it is suggested that Tamiflu and Rolenza (oseltamivir and zanamivir, respectively) are the only antiviral medications to be used in swine flu cases to avoid drug resistance. Annual flu vaccinations do not protect against swine flu because the virus strains are different.
In response to the swine flu situation, Roche, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures Tamiflu, have beefed up production rates of the drug. The WHO announced it has enough stockpiled to treat about 5 million cases.
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Don R. White, Tucson
posted 4/29/09 @ 5:37 AM CST
We hope that you are right. WHO reported a similar virus detected in Mexican pigs c. Feb. 6th '09. Undercooked Pork could be the culprit. They say they don't know the origin of this virus but then say it is not from eating pork or chicken (this is swine AND avian and human). (Continued…)
business stationary
posted 5/13/09 @ 12:13 PM CST
Lets hope that this is accurate. I also read an article that stated the "normal" flu takes more lives per year than what the swine flu is on target for. (Continued…)
notepad publishing
posted 10/05/09 @ 4:29 PM CST
H1N1 = Conspiracy?
October 2009
On October 1 2009, a FORMER federal health minister dismisses as ( "www.conspiration.info/blog1.php/2009/10/02/crackpots-are-against-swine-flu-vaccine-">"crackpots and conspiracy theorists") those who would actively discourage Australians from having their swine flu vaccine'. (Continued…)
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