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Australia orders 10 million vaccines, H1N1 swine flu virus, Health Minister Nicola Roxon, pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd

From Medical News Today, May 28, 2009:

“10 Million H1N1 Vaccines Ordered By Australia”

“Reports are coming in that the government of Australia has placed an order for 10 million vaccines against the novel H1N1 swine flu virus, following a press briefing from Health Minister Nicola Roxon in Canberra earlier today, Thursday.

According to a report from Reuters, Roxon said the Australian government will also be ordering 1.6 million courses of the antiviral drug Relenza, bringing the national stockpile of antivirals to nearly 12 million courses.

The swine flu vaccine order has been placed with pharmaceutical company CSL Ltd who are planning to start clinical trials in a few months.”

“Earlier today, the Australian authorities reported they have officially confirmed 103 cases of H1N1 swine flu, up from 61 on Wednesday.

Australia is also gearing up for the regular flu season, which starts about now, as the winter months approach.

Most of the swine flu cases are believed to be in New South Wales and Victoria, the country’s two most populated states and which lie to the south east.

Three of the cases were passengers travelling on the cruise liner Pacific Dawn which is now not going to complete its journey north to Queensland.”

Read more:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/151773.php

H1N1 swine flu, May 25, 2009, Bloomberg article, Swine Flu Is Spreading Wider Than Official Data Show, woman in her 50s died in New York over weekend

From Bloomberg, May 25, 2009:

“Swine Flu Is Spreading Wider Than Official Data Show”

“Swine flu is spreading more widely than official figures indicate, with outbreaks in Europe and Asia showing it’s gained a foothold in at least three regions.

One in 20 cases is being officially reported in the U.S., meaning more than 100,000 people have probably been infected nationwide with the new H1N1 flu strain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the U.K., the virus may be 300 times more widespread than health authorities have said, the Independent on Sunday reported yesterday.

Japan, which has reported the most cases in Asia, began reopening schools at the weekend after health officials said serious medical complications had not emerged in those infected. The virus is now spreading in the community in Australia, Jim Bishop, the nation’s chief medical officer, said yesterday.

“I think we will see the number rise,” Bishop told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio today after confirming the nation’s 17th case and saying test results are pending on 41 others. “This is going to be a marathon rather than a sprint.”

Forty-six countries have confirmed 12,515 cases, including 91 deaths, according to the World Health Organization’s latest tally. Almost four of every five cases were in Mexico and the U.S., where the pig-derived strain was discovered last month. Most of those infected experience an illness similar to that of seasonal flu. The main difference is that the new H1N1 strain is persisting outside the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Summer Disease?

“While we are seeing activities decline in some areas, we should expect to see more cases, more hospitalizations and perhaps more deaths over the weeks ahead and possibly into the summer,” Anne Schuchat, CDC’s interim deputy director for science and public health program, told reporters on a May 22 conference call.

The U.S. has officially reported 6,552 probable and confirmed cases, Schuchat said. “These are just the tip of the iceberg. We are estimating more than 100,000 people probably have this virus now in the U.S.”

There have been nine deaths and more than 300 known hospitalizations, she said. The fatalities exclude a woman in her 50s who died in New York over the weekend.

China reported cases today in Shanghai and the eastern province of Zhejiang, taking its tally of confirmed infections to 12. Taiwan confirmed the island’s first domestically transmitted case and reported two imported infections, giving it nine. South Korea confirmed 12 more cases, bringing its total to 22, while the Philippines confirmed a second infection today.”

“Community spread of the new virus in a second region means WHO’s criteria for a pandemic has been met, said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy of the University of Minneapolis.”

Read more:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agHVPFaC5R.M&refer=worldwide

Philip J Berg, Memorial Day press release, Honor brave men & women, Barack Obama disgraces their memory, Obama ineligible, US Constitution

From Philip J. Berg:

Press Release

 

 

For Immediate Release:  – 05/23/2009   
 

 

 

As We Honor our Brave Men & Women who have died and been wounded protecting our U.S. Constitution

It is appalling how Barack Obama disgraces their memories by being Constitutionally ineligible to be President

Total U.S. Military Deaths 1775 to 2008 = 1,593,124

Total U.S. Military Injuries 1775 to 1991 = 1,581,631

 
 

      (Lafayette Hill, PA – 05/23/2009) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the first Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of Constitutional “qualifications/eligibility” to serve as President of the United States and his three [3] cases that are still pending, Berg vs. Obama [2 cases – 1 under seal] and Hollister vs. Soetoro a/k/a Obama, et al announced today that he and the obamacrimes.com supporters are Honoring those that died and were wounded defending our most sacred document, our U.S. Constitution.

      Berg said, “It is appalling how Barack Obama disgraces their memories by being Constitutionally ineligible to be President and not showing his Birth Certificate, Immigration Records, Adoption Papers and documents showing he legally changed his name from ‘Barry Soetoro to Barack Hussein Obama’ and other records to prove his eligibility.  We are asking our supporters to send an e-mail to Barack Obama asking him to honor the fallen by showing that either he is or is not constitutionally eligible to be President, and if not, to resign from the Presidency now.

       

      We are asking all of our supporters to:  
 

          [1] Stop what they are doing on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2009 for a moment of silence at 3:00 p.m. in honor of the fallen who have sacrificed their lives in defense of our U.S. Constitution and the United States of America and those that were wounded; 
     

          [2] Send this Press Release to everyone in their e-mail address book and ask them to send on so that as many people we can reach will pause to honor our fallen on Memorial Day; 
     

          [3] Send an e-mail to Barack Obama by filling out his contact form located at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ asking him to honor the fallen by showing that either he is or is not constitutionally eligible to be President. 
     
     

Deaths and Injured of U.S. Military: 1775 – 3/25/2008 
 

Per War:

Revolutionary War 1775-1783:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  290,000

Death Total  4,435

Non-Mortal Wound Total:  6,188 
 
 

War of 1812-1815:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  286,730

Death Total 2,260

Non-Mortal Wound Total 4,505

 
 

Mexican War 1846-1848:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  78,718

Death Total 13,283

Non-Mortal Wound Total 4,152

 
 
 

Civil War 1861-1865:

Union Forces Only

Total Enlisted (Serving): 2,213,363

Death Total 504,925

Non-Mortal Wound Total 281,881 
 

Spanish American War 1898-1902:

Total Enlisted (Serving): 306,760

Death Total 2,831

Non-Mortal Wound Total 1,662

 

World War I  1917-1918:

Total Enlisted (Serving): 4,734,991

Death Total 169,918

Non-Mortal Wound Total 204,002

 

World War II  1941-1946:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  16,112,566

Death Total 696,596

Non-Mortal Wound Total 671,846 
 

Korean War 1950-1953:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  5,720,000

Death Total 70,315

Non-Mortal Wound Total 103,284 
 

Vietnam Conflict 1964-1973:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  8,744,000

Death Total 105,633

Non-Mortal Wound Total in-patient hospital   153,303

Non-Mortal; Wound Total out-patient hospital 150,341

 

Persian Gulf War 1990-1991:

Total Enlisted (Serving):  2,225,000

Death Total 3,295

Non-Mortal Wound Total 467

 

Total U.S. Military Deaths:  1775 – 2008:  1,593,124

Total U.S. Military Injuries: 1775 – 1991:  1,581,631

 Read more and view the cemetaries:

http://www.obamacrimes.info/

Christopher Strunk, Obama lawsuit, QUO WARRANTO DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL, AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF CROSS MOTION, May 25, 2009, 5/27/09 final memorandum of law, Memorial Day

Here is an update from Christopher Strunk on his Quo Warranto:

“On this weekend of Memorial Day in remembrance of my ancestors who fought in the Revolution for Independence from Britain, and from whom I inherit from my Great Grandfather John Quigley Strunk, Freemason Grandfather Moses Strunk and Father Earl Henry Strunk the obligation to remember my great uncles John and Charles Strunk who as soldiers served the USA and Pennsylvania died in the war to end all wars; and therefore as a courtesy WE attach the DRAFT of the NOTICE OF CROSS MOTION OF QUO WARRANTO DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL AND DECISION ON QUESTION OF FIRST IMPRESSION  IN RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S PARTIAL MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S AMENDED COMPLAINT AS TO ALLEGED POTUS:  BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN ESSE
 
and
 
The DRAFT of the AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF CROSS MOTION OF QUO WARRANTO DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL AND DECISION ON QUESTION OF FIRST IMPRESSION  IN RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S PARTIAL MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S AMENDED COMPLAINT AS TO THE CORPORATE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ALLEGED: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN ESSE
 
Such is ready for filing without the addition of various dates in the context with the Exhibits, that will only be attached when the final Memorandum of Law which I am working on when ready is withheld until Wednesday 5/27/09 when the email of the PDF is sent to you all.
 
I would not entertain  an intervention from anyone; and even if  attorney John D. Hemenway’s injury were remanded to district, because the cowboy DJ Robertson acted with questionable impetuousness when he even failed to admit the pro hac vice motion counsel, even the Hollister case is still a matter to find the wet signatures on file there.
 
I appear as the only “interested party” with standing in the Quo Warranto matter and as such oppose any other intervention.
 
Best regards to you all for you have provided me with instruction by your actions to date and we are all grateful accordingly.
 
Chris Strunk”

View the draft:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=121761372bd24521&mt=application%2Fpdf

Obama, Baxter International, CDC, Dr. Robert Weinstein, corruption ties, Chicago, Weinstein, Levine, Rezko, Blagojevich, Obama

Are you sleeping well these days with the corrupt Obama in the White House and concerns about the H1N1 Swine Flu?

Flu epidemics or pandemics are scary enough under normal circumstances, but with the reputation of Obama and his long time ties to crime and corruption in Chicago, it is hard to trust anything coming out of his administration.

Remember Dr. Robert Weinstein? He pled guilty to corruption charges a few months ago, corruption charges that linked him to Stuart Levine, Tony Rezko, Rod Blagojevich and ultimately Barack Obama. Well, it turns out that there is a Dr. Weinstein that has ties to the CDC and possibly Baxter. Are these Dr. Weinstein’s related?

Now revisit the following article:

 Obama baxter ties in corrupt Chicago

To refresh your memory:

Dr. Robert Weinstein Indictment

Governor Rod Blagojevich Criminal Complaint

Citizen Wells request to Patrick Fitzgerald, Indict Obama

Dr. Robert Weinstein pleads guilty

Dr. Robert Weinstein and the CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Past Issue

Vol. 7, No. 2
Mar–Apr 2001

“Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals: Infection Control and Use of Antibiotics

Robert A. Weinstein
Cook County Hospital and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ilinois, USA”

“Dr. Weinstein is chair, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cook County Hospital; director of Infectious Disease Services for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services; and professor of medicine, Rush Medical College. He also oversees the CORE Center for the Prevention, Care and Research of Infectious Disease and directs the Cook County Hospital component of the Rush/Cook County Infectious Disease Fellowship Program. His areas of research include nosocomial infections (particularly the epidemiology and control of antimicrobial resistance and infections in intensive care units) and health-care outcomes for patients with HIV/AIDS.

Address for correspondence: Robert A. Weinstein, Division of Infectious Diseases – Suite 129 Durand, Cook County Hospital, 1835 W. Harrison St.,Chicago, IL 60612, USA; fax: 312-572-3523; e-mail: rweinste@rush.edu

Read more:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no2/weinstein.htm

October 24, 2006

“Yet the CDC refuses to endorse search and destroy. It is sticking to the mantra that hospital workers should wash their hands more carefully and frequently, and that in most cases patients should be isolated only after symptoms of infection with MRSA appear. Routine surveillance to find patients who may not be symptomatic, but are still contagious, is rarely practiced, and not recommended in the CDC’s new hospital infection-fighting guidelines, which were released last week after five years of deliberations. The guidelines do not include a routine recommendation for search and destroy.”

“This is a bitter pill for many infectious-disease experts, who have been joined by the relatives of dead patients, Consumers Union, and even a few Congress members in pressing the CDC. “Why are we spending millions if not billions on bird flu, a ghost that might not happen, when you have thousands being colonized by MRSA and dying of it?” asks Dr. William Jarvis, a top CDC hospital-infection expert until he resigned in 2003. At a March 29 hearing on hospital infections—which, all told, kill an estimated 90,000 patients each year—Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., charged that the CDC had stood by, despite a steady rise in infections since the early 1970s. “During that time, hospital stays have grown dramatically shorter yet infection rates continue to go up,” Stupak said. “What do we have to do to motivate CDC?””

“The counterargument is made by Dr. Robert Weinstein, a hospital-infection expert at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and a leader on the CDC advisory committee that issued last week’s guidelines.”

Read more:

http://www.slate.com/id/2152118/

Kerchner v Obama, Mario Apuzzo, Lawsuit, Update, May 18, 2009, Declaration Opposing Defendants’ Motion to Extend Time to Answer or Otherwise Move as to the Amended Complaint Returnable June 1, 2009

From Mario Apuzzo website,  May 18, 2009:

“Monday, May 18, 2009

Declaration Opposing Defendants’ Motion to Extend Time to Answer or Otherwise Move as to the Amended Complaint Returnable June 1, 2009

Activity in Kerchner et al v Obama & Congress et al Lawsuit – On 18 May 2000 I filed a Declaration Opposing Defendants’ Motion to Extend Time to Answer or Otherwise Move as to the Amended Complaint Returnable June 1, 2009. The defendants have already had almost three months to answer, move, or otherwise respond. Regular citizen defendants get 20 days. The government normally gets 60 days. They have already had almost 90 days. What they are asking for would get them to over 120 days before having to answer or otherwise move. In our opinion, they have had an adequate amount of time to answer or move or other wise respond. Thus I have filed our opposition to any further extensions of time to answer or otherwise move on this case. More on that in a subsequent post.

Link to a copy of the Declaration Opposing Defendants’ Motion:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15610545/

Link to view Advertorial on page 11 in 18 May 2009 edition of Washington Times National Weekly:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15611836/

Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
185 Gatzmer Avenue
Jamesburg NJ 08831
Email: apuzzo [AT] erols.com
TEL: 732-521-1900 ~ FAX: 732-521-3906
BLOG: http://puzo1.blogspot.com”

More here:

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/

Obama muslim, Islamic law, Arab country trips, Michelle Obama, not be allowed to bring his wife into countries that accept Sharia Law, bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia

The following email was just sent to me:
“If you check Obama’s last trip over seas, His wife left just after France as stated below. She has yet to accompany him to any Arab country. Think about it. This was sent to me from a very good and reliable friend.  The pieces of the puzzle just keep on coming together!
                       
 Interesting…
 
 
 
 I did not write this…someone forwarded it to me…but my wife lived in Saudi Arabia for two years, and from what she tells me, it makes sense!  Subject: Travel
           for Obama  I was at a Blockbusters on Saturday renting videos, and as I was going along the wall, there was a video called “Obama”. I told the two men next to me that I wouldn’t waste my time.
         
            We talked about Obama. These guys were Arabs and I asked them why they thought Michele Obama headed home following her visit in France instead of traveling on to Saudi Arabia and Turkey with her husband.  They told me she couldn’t go to
           Saudi Arabia , Turkey or Iraq . I
           said “Laura Bush went to Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Dubai .”  They said that Obama is a Muslim, and by Muslim law he would not be allowed to bring his wife into countries that accept Sharia Law. Just
           thought it was interesting that two Arabs at Blockbusters
           accept the idea that we’re being led by a Muslim who follows the Islamic creed. They also said that’s the reason he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia . It was a signal to the Muslim world. Just thought you would like to know.”

Philip Berg update, May 17, 2009, Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, Michelle Obama, Hoax, Constitutional crisis, Obama ineligible, illegal alien, Michelle Obama disbarred

From Philip J Berg, may 17, 2009:

“For Immediate Release: – 05/17/2009
For Further Information Contact:
Philip J. Berg, Esquire
555 Andorra Glen Court, Suite 12
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-2531
Cell (610) 662-3005
(610) 825-3134
(800) 993-PHIL [7445]
Fax (610) 834-7659
philjberg@obamacrimes.com
Berg states the Obama’s give Commencement Addresses but
fail to be honest with the graduates about who they really are.
Barack Obama is really Barry Soetoro, an illegal alien, an
Usurper who is Constitutionally “ineligible” to be President
of the United States.
Michelle Obama is a “disbarred” attorney in Illinois – how
and why ?
Why does the public not know the backgrounds of the
phonies in the White House ?
Obama is the biggest “HOAX” against the United States in
over 230 years !
Time to e-mail !
(Lafayette Hill, PA – 05/17/2009) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the first
Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator
Obama’s lack of Constitutional “qualifications/eligibility” to serve as
President of the United States and has three [3] cases that are still pending
in the Federal Court system, Berg vs. Obama [2 cases – 1 under seal] and
Hollister vs. Soetoro a/k/a Obama, et al, announced today that he is asking
everyone to e-mail the messages below to DEMAND THE OBAMA’S to
release the “truth” about their backgrounds.
The purpose of our President is to protect our Country, the U.S.A.
and “We The People”, not to leave us with doubts and fears. If “We The
People” and our Country, the United States of America, are important to
Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack H. Obama, he would do everything in his
power to put all doubts and fears to rest. It is a very easy solution; all he
has to do is provide his Constitutional eligibility credentials and records.
Yes, transparency and openness as promised by Obama !
Our country is in a financial crisis, BUT WORSE, a “Constitutional
Crisis” as Obama is not “Constitutionally eligible/qualified” to be
President.
Send one [1] e-mail to the following: The White House, Vice
President Biden – http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/; Nancy Pelosi –
AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov; ASSOCIATED PRESS – traum@ap.org; New York
Times – letters@nytimes.com, oped@nytimes.com, editorial@nytimes.com, nytnews@nytimes.com,
executive-editor@nytimes.com, managing-editor@nytimes.com, news-tips@nytimes.com,
national@nytimes.com, washington@nytimes.com; Washington Post – letters@washpost.com,
national@washpost.com, sundaysource@washpost.com; Washington Times –
oped@washingtontimes.com, yourletters@washingtontimes.com; Los Angeles Times –
Tim.Garrison@latimes.com, Michael.Owen@latimes.com, Tenny.Tatusian@latimes.com,
David.Johnson@latimes.com, Marc.Olson@latimes.com, Michael.Muskal@latimes.com,
Roger.Smith@latimes.com, Ashley.Dunn@latimes.com, Steve.Padilla@latimes.com,
Mark.Barabak@latimes.com, Connie.Stewart@latimes.com, Robin.Abcarian@latimes.com,
Bob.Drogin@latimes.com; The Chicago Tribune – tips@tribune.com, bdold@tribune.com,
ctc-editor@tribune.com, JHirt@tribune.com, JWinnecke@tribune.com, KAlleynemorris@tribune.com,
Rxbecker@tribune.com, SBenzkofer@tribune.com; The Sacramento Bee – oped@sacbee.com,
letters@sacbee.com: ATLANTA JOURNAL – CONSTIUTION – bsteiden@ajc.com,
cwarmbold@ajc.com, cynthia@ajc.com, gmathis@ajc.com, hklibanoff@ajc.com, hpost@ajc.com,
jmallory@ajc.com, jbookman@ajc.com, jdwallace@ajc.com, letters@ajc.com, insideajc@ajc.com,
pgast@ajc.com, rnarayanan@ajc.com, rhenry@ajc.com; BOSTON GLOBE –
goodman@globe.com, kcooper@globe.com, johnson@globe.com, letter@globe.com,
brelis@globe.com, oliphant@globe.com; BUSINESS WEEK – lettersbwol@businessweek.com,
richard_dunham@businessweek.com; ABC – netaudr@abc.com, nightline@abcnews.com,
2020@abc.com; CBS – evening@cbsnews.com, earlyshow@cbs.com, 60minutes@cbsnews.com,
48hours@cbsnews.com, ftn@cbsnews.com; NBC – today@nbc.com; FOX News –
comments@foxnews.com, Special@foxnews.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com, Oreilly@foxnews.com,
Hannity@foxnews.com, Colmes@foxnews.com, Ontherecord@foxnews.com; CNN and CNN
Headline News – http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?6,
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/; aaron.brown@turner.com, andrea.koppel@turner.com,
bill.schneider@turner.com, bruce.morton@turner.com, candy.crowley@turner.com; MSNBC,
dateline@nbc.com, hardball@msnbc.com, joe@msnbc.com, nightly@nbc.com; CNBC –
info@cnbc.com; PBS – newshour@pbs.org; NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO –
ombudsman@npr.org; THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW – ElRushbo@eibnet.com;
SEAN HANNITY SHOW – phil.boyce@citcomm.com;
“To Barack Hussein Obama a/k/a Barry Soetoro and Michelle
Obama: As your administration is to be “open and transparent,” why will
you not divulge your backgrounds? I know why.
As both of you are addressing graduates of college, you are being
dishonest to all of them as you fail to tell them about your backgrounds.
What a disgrace !
Because both of you are putting on the biggest “HOAX” in our
country in over 230 years.
Barack or rather Barry [Soetoro], you know you are an illegal alien,
not only “Constitutionally ineligible/unqualified” to be President, but also
it was illegal for you to have served as a United States Senator from
Illinois for 3 ½ years.
Michelle, just be honest ! You are being honored as First Lady
without explaining to the citizens of our country that you were “disbarred”
from being an attorney in 1993 – why ? The public has a right to know.
Michelle and Obama, you both know that you are putting forth this
great “HOAX,” that is so dangerous to all of us, the people of this great
nation.
Reveal yourselves and Obama resign, as President “now” as
everything you do is void or voidable. Why are you putting our nation
through this turmoil ?
Thank you,
Respectfully,
__________________________ [your name]”
For copies of all Press Releases and Court Pleadings, go to:
obamacrimes.com”

 

Read more:

 

http://www.obamacrimes.info/index.html

Baxter International, H1N1 Swine flu vaccine, Obama, Chicago, May 18, 2009, British government orders 90 million dosages of swine flu vaccine from Baxter, Glaxo

From the Chicago Tribune, May 18, 2009:

“British government orders 90 million dosages of swine flu vaccine from Baxter, Glaxo

 

The British government this morning announced deals with vaccine manufacturers including Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. to make up to 90 million dosages of a vaccine as a precaution against the swine flu.

The United Kingdom Department of Health today said this morning the deals with Baxter and GlaxoSmithKline Plc “will enable production of pre-pandemic vaccine to begin as soon as possible.” Financial terms of the deal were not available this morning

“The agreements could provide enough vaccine to protect the most vulnerable in our population before a pandemic is likely to arrive, without affecting our supply of seasonal flu vaccine,” the department said in a statement on its web site.

Baxter and other vaccine makers last week obtained strains of the A/H1NI virus from the World Health Organization, which is working with countries around the world. “The WHO has set up a pandemic vaccine supply group that meets weekly and Baxter is part of that group,” Baxter said this morning.”

Read more:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-swine-flu-vaccine-britain-baxter-may15,0,5442108.story

Obama owned stock in a company owned by Baxter International several years ago and  company employees were sizeable contributors to Obama’s campaign. Obama also warned of a global pandemic in 2005.

New York Reports Its First Swine Flu Death, May 17, 2009, assistant principal, New York City public school, Mitchell Wiener, experimental drug, Ribavirin, overwhelmed by the illness

From the NY Times, May 17, 2009:

“New York Reports Its First Swine Flu Death”

“An assistant principal at a New York City public school died of complications from swine flu in an intensive care unit of a Queens hospital on Sunday night, the first death in New York State of the flu strain that has swept across much of the world since it was first identified in April.”

“On Friday, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, head of flu epidemiology for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there had been 173 hospitalizations and 5 deaths reported to the agency. But he emphasized that most cases in the United States — possibly “upwards of 100,000” — were mild.”

““We are now seeing a rising tide of flu in many parts of New York City,” Dr. Frieden said. But he added: “Nothing we’ve seen so far suggests that it’s more dangerous to someone who gets it than the flu that comes every year. We should not forget that the flu that comes every year kills about 1,000 New Yorkers.”

Mr. Wiener, 55, had been “overwhelmed” by the illness, despite beginning a course of treatment with an experimental drug, Ribavirin, after he failed to respond to other antiviral drugs, according to Ole Pedersen, a spokesman for Flushing Hospital Medical Center, where Mr. Wiener had been a patient since Wednesday.”

“His wife, Bonnie, a reading teacher, blamed the city for failing to act sooner to close the school where she and her husband both worked. “I know we have a duty to educate the children of New York,” Ms. Wiener, who is not sick, said on Friday. But, she added, “something just doesn’t fit right.””

“A total of 105 students were documented with flulike illness at Middle School 158 in Bayside, Our Lady of Lourdes in Queens Village and a building in Flushing that houses three schools with a total of 1,320 students, including Intermediate School 25. All of the schools will be closed beginning Monday for at least five days, the department said.”

Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/nyregion/18swine.html?ref=health