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CDC H1N1 Flu Update, May 8, 2009, Illinois, IL largest reports, US Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection, Obama and Baxter International Chicago, IL connections

** Update, The lastest CDC numbers are at the bottom. 5/08/2009, 12:15 PM ET **

I, like many of you, am watching reports of the Swine flu, H1N1, more carefully each day. I have been visiting the CDC site with regularity and due to my math background and inquisitive nature, something  in the data stood out this morning. It may mean nothing, but it is a curiousity, and given Obama’s connections to Chicago and Baxter International being located there, there is cause for more scrutiny.

Notice in the CDC report of confirmed flu cases by state that Illinois has almost twice as many cases as the next highest state. Illinois has 204, California, with a much higher population and located adjacent to Mexico has 106, Texas with a large population and located adjacent to Mexico has 91 and New York with a much larger population has 98. The more I have pondered these numbers and logistics, the more curious I have become.

CDC Human Cases of H1N1 Flu by state:

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm

Let me know what you think

 

 

U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection
 
 
 

 

States

 

 

 

 

Laboratory
confirmed
cases

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

 

 

 

 
Alabama    

4    

   
Arizona    

48    

   
California    

106    

   
Colorado    

17    

   
Connecticut    

4    

   
Delaware    

38    

   
Florida    

5    

   
Georgia    

3    

   
Hawaii    

3    

   
Idaho    

1    

   
Illinois    

204    

   
Indiana    

15    

   
Iowa    

5    

   
Kansas    

7    

   
Kentucky*    

2    

   
Louisiana    

7    

   
Maine    

4    

   
Maryland    

4    

   
Massachusetts    

71    

   
Michigan    

9    

   
Minnesota    

1    

   
Missouri    

4    

   
Nebraska    

4    

   
Nevada    

5    

   
New Hampshire    

2    

   
New Jersey    

7    

   
New Mexico    

8    

   
New York    

98    

   
North Carolina    

7    

   
Ohio    

5    

   
Oklahoma    

1    

   
Oregon    

15    

   
Pennsylvania    

2    

   
Rhode Island    

2    

   
South Carolina    

17    

   
Tennessee    

2    

   
Texas    

91    

2    

 
Utah    

8    

   
Virginia    

11    

   
Washington    

23    

   
Wisconsin    

26    

   
TOTAL (41)    

896 cases    

2 deaths    

 
(As of May 7, 2009, 11:00 AM ET) 

 

U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection

States*

 

Laboratory
confirmed
cases

 

Deaths

 

 
Alabama 

   
Arizona 

131 

   
California 

107 

   
Colorado 

25 

   
Connecticut 

   
Delaware 

39 

   
Florida 

   
Georgia 

   
Hawaii 

   
Idaho 

   
Illinois 

392 

   
Indiana 

29 

   
Iowa 

   
Kansas 

12 

   
Kentucky** 

   
Louisiana 

   
Maine 

   
Maryland 

   
Massachusetts 

83 

   
Michigan 

49 

   
Minnesota 

   
Missouri 

   
Nebraska 

   
Nevada 

   
New Hampshire 

   
New Jersey 

   
New Mexico 

   
New York 

174 

   
North Carolina 

   
Ohio 

   
Oklahoma 

   
Oregon 

15 

   
Pennsylvania 

   
Rhode Island 

   
South Carolina 

29 

   
South Dakota 

   
Tennessee 

36 

   
Texas 

93 

 
Utah 

24 

   
Virginia 

14 

   
Washington 

33 

   
Washington, D.C. 

   
Wisconsin 

240 

   
TOTAL*(43) 

1639 cases 

2 deaths 

 

(As of May 8, 2009, 11:00 AM ET) 

 

CDC, Press briefing transcripts, May 7, 2009, 4 PM ET, New England Journal of Medicine Articles on H1N1 Flu, 1918 flu pandemic, H1N1 Virus, Triple Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H1)

Read the following transcript and provide your thoughts:

“Press Briefing Transcripts

CDC Telebriefing on New England Journal of Medicine Articles on H1N1 Flu

May 7, 2009, 4 p.m. ET”

“>>> Welcome and thank you for standing by.  At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode until the question and answer period of today’s conference call.  During the question and answer session, you may press star one to ask a question.  At this time, I’ll turn the call Over to Mr. Dave Daigle.  You may begin. 

>> Hi, this is Dave Daigle, with CDC Media Relations, thank you for joining us on this short-notice telebriefing to discuss two “New England Journal of Medicine” publications: The Emergence of Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A H1N1 Virus in Humans and Human Infections with Triple-Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H1) in the U.S. from 2005 to 2009.  Joining us today are Drs. Michael Shaw, Lyn Finelli, Carolyn Bridges and Fatimah Dawood. I think we’re going dispense with opening statements and just go right into the questions.  So can we have the first question, please? 

>> Thank you, again. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one.  Our first question comes today from Donald McNeil with “The New York Times.” You may ask your question. 

>> Hi.  In reading over the article about the triple-reassortant swine influenza A. I’m assuming this is tracing infections that do not include the Eurasian swine sequence found in the patients in the current outbreak, and I wondered if you can tell us more about whether or not that Eurasian swine strain had ever been found in the United States, whether you can tell from genetic sequencing where it got into the combination along with these triple reassortants or give us any details of that.

>> Those genes had never been seen in the Americas before. 

>> Wait one second, this is Dr. Michael Shaw.

>> Thank you.

>> This was the first time they had been seen in any virus in any human or animal.  And the genetic lineage of the virus we can trace back, there’s clearly a gap in the surveillance because there are no really close relatives, nothing that we can say was an immediate precursor.  Because of this new finding, a lot of researchers in the field are going back through their archives now, digging through their freezers to see if they had something that was overlooked but there’s absolutely nothing in the literature, nothing publicly available and nothing that our colleagues knew about when this was first found. 

>> This is Carolyn Bridges.  I think it’s also important maybe to just point out and maybe you want to take questions over to USDA as well, but from our understanding, there were no importation of pigs into the United States from Eurasia.

>> Next question, please.

>> Our next question comes from Maggie Fox with Reuters. 

>> Oh, darn, I wanted someone else to ask some first.  Can we go back over that, what is it that’s new and any hint as to whether somebody might have carried this reassortant to Mexico or whether it emerged there considering the surveillance we have is of people who had that triple-reassortant in the U.S. 

>> This is Michael Shaw again.  Genetics are indicating that the origin of this virus apparently happened before anyone was aware of it occurring in animals or humans.  It was six of the genes were similar to what had already been seen in the Americas circulating in pigs and that we knew about.  The acquisition of these two new Genes from the Eurasian lineage have never been seen in the Americas.  There is importation of pigs, the way I understand, too to Europe and Asia for breeding purposes, but not the other way around.  So whether it might have come into this hemisphere by a person or an animal, we have no idea.  There’s just not — we’re not in a position to say right now. 

>> Thank you, Maggie.  Next question, please.

>> Thank you, our next question comes from Mike Stope from Associated Press.  Ask your question. 

>> Hi, thanks, doctors, for doing this.  Two questions.  The first one, I saw in one of the articles, we saw this in I think the MMWR2, 38% of cases in the U.S. looking at the U.S. cases also involved vomiting or diarrhea.  That’s not typical of seasonal influenza.  What explains that in this virus?  Can you give us any information about what is it about this virus that’s causing those symptoms at a higher amount? 

>> Yes.  This is Fatimah Dawood.  We did find in the first 642 cases or patients who are diagnosed with swine-origin influenza virus infection that 25% either had diarrhea or vomiting.  This is a new virus and we’re still learning how transmission occurs.  But because we’ve made this observation, we are recommending that clinicians think about transmission not only through a respiratory route but also through the gastrointestinal route as fecal-oral transmission, but it’s not fully understood what role those symptoms played yet.

>> Thank you, Mike.  Next question, please. 

>> Thank you.  Our next question comes from Heidi Sloot with “Internal Medicine News.”  You may ask your question.

>> Hi.  Thanks for taking my question.  This is sort of a follow-up to the previous question.  What right now is the take-home message then for clinician relating to this as far as symptoms to watch for or what to tell patients? 

>> This is Fatimah Dawood again.  In our paper, again we looked at the first 642 cases and we found that the majority of people with confirmed swine-origin influenza virus infection had symptoms that are typical of seasonal influenza.  Those would include fever, cough and sore throat, which are the three most common symptoms observed.  As mentioned previously, diarrhea and vomiting were prominent symptoms as well, so what I would say is that clinicians and people should be aware of those symptoms and I think that as members of the community have symptoms that are concerning to them, they should discuss that with their clinician.

>> Thanks very much.  Next question, please.

>> Thank you, our next question comes from Daniel Denude with webmd.

>> Thanks for taking my question.  I have to push beyond this.  Perhaps you all noticed there was also a paper published at the same time about the signature features of pandemic flus in the past and it strikes me that these flus continually seem to have some of the features that we’re seeing here, striking younger people, and that there is a wave phenomenon.  I wonder if you could comment on the risk groups that you’re seeing for this virus and what we might expect looking forward from our experience with pandemic flu about what future waves of viruses tend to look like as they tend to become pandemic.  I know that’s a wide question but I appreciate you addressing it.

>> This is Fatimah Dawood.  You know, I would say that this is an evolving outbreak and we’re still learning about how this virus works, but what we observed in our paper is that 60% of confirmed cases occurred in people who are 18 years of age and younger.  Now there may be several possible explanations for that. One is the possibility that younger people are more susceptible to the virus, but there may also be a bias in the way that we are finding cases right now because the numbers of cases were identified in school outbreaks and still more young people are being tested right now.  There is also the possibility that older people may have some antibodies to other influenza viruses that give them cross protection against the current virus.  I think it’s difficult to make predictions at this point. 

>> This is Dr. Carolyn Bridges. In terms of the second part of your question about what we might expect, of course we’ll have to sort of wait and see, that’s always the tricky part with influenza.  We never sort of know what we’re going to get until we get there.  But with past pandemics where there’s been a novel strain where there has been initiation or introduction of that virus, the initial outbreaks if they occur in the summer are generally milder.  We know that the influenza virus, in general, prefers lower humidity, lower temperatures for transmission.  So as we’re in the summertime, we expect it to be seasonal influenza but what we’re likely to see is some transmission that occurs over the summer with the possibility that in the fall when the weather turns cooler again that we might see an increase in cases that will be looking closely toward the southern hemisphere, during their winter that is coming up to see what happens and that may give us some clues as to what we might expect in the upcoming winter months here in the United States.

>> Thank you very much.  Next question, please. 

>> Our next question comes from John Warren with Bloomberg News, you may ask your question.

>> Hi.  Thanks for taking my question.  Yeah, I was wondering if you could talk more about whether the ancestors of this virus may have been circulating in people before it was in pigs and whether that might have given immunity to older people.  Thanks.

>> This is Michael Shaw.  Well, ultimately all of the ancestors of this particular swine strain and circulating seasonal H1N1 can be traced back to the 1918 pandemic.  That virus established itself both in humans and in pigs.  And they’ve been evolving along separate tracks.  And in the process being both mammalian species they’ve maintained the ability to go back and forth, which is what we’ve seen obviously, for example, in the other paper we’re talking about today that they are able to make the jump.  What’s unusual about this particular case, is that it’s able to apparently establish sustained transmission.  What’s clear from what we’re seeing genetically and just the behavior of the virus, it was already well-adapted for transmission in humans before it popped up in this particular case.  But ancestors are the same.  You can trace them all back to 1918. 

>> Thank you, John.  Next question, please.

>> Thank you.  Our next question comes from Elizabeth Weiss with “USA Today.”  You may ask your question. 

>> Hi.  Thanks for taking my call.  This is follow-up on that then. You talked about there may be a missing link in observation or surveillance.  How much observation and surveillance is there worldwide and how likely is it that you would actually see something close to real-time virus like this popping up? 

>> This is Carolyn Bridges.  I think what we can say is that we certainly are much better prepared this year than we would have been a few years ago.  And although what we were preparing for most urgently was potential emergence and spread of H5N1, the avian virus, those investments have paid off in spades.  And so we have invested from the U.S. government with many colleagues from different countries.  Other donors in increasing laboratory capacity in countries around the world.  So I can’t tell you for sure how early we might be able to identify — have identified this virus, but we certainly are in much better shape than we would have been even just two years ago.

>> Thanks.  Next question, please.

>> Thank you, our next question comes from Mary Manning with “Las Vegas Sun.”  You may ask your question.

>> Yes.  Thank you for taking my question.  I’d like to know if there’s been any studies done on how long this virus lasts when it gets out in the environment? 

>> This is Michael Shaw.  There have been no — we haven’t had the virus long enough to do studies on this particular one.  All I can go by is past experience with other influenza viruses.  It depends on the environmental conditions.  It survives better on a hard surface than a porous surface, for example.  It’s inactivated quickly at higher temperatures.  Those are just general facts about flu.  But these particular strains, people are working on it.  We haven’t done — don’t have that information yet. 

>> Thanks very much.  Next question.

>> Thank you, our next question comes from Brian Thompson with KS public radio.  You may ask your question.

>> Hi.  Thanks for this opportunity.  As for the predecessors of this virus that emerged in pigs in the late 1990s, the humane society of the U.S. has made the argument that intensive factory farming is responsible for the shift in the genes that caused all this to happen.  I’d like you — Juergen Rick at Kansas State University, by the way ,argues that backyard pigs would be more susceptible because they are exposed to more viruses left by bird droppings and such.  So I would like you to weigh in on that, please. 

>> This is Carolyn Bridges.  I’m not sure we can really speculate about that, given what we believe based on the data that we have available from the genetic databases is that we don’t have any precursors like this in the United States despite tremendous amount of surveillance that goes on here in the U.S.  So I can’t speculate.  I wouldn’t able to say one way or the other. 

>> Thanks very much.  Next question.

>> Thank you.  Again, I’d like to invite parties who would like to ask a question, press star one.  Record your name prior to asking a question.  Our next question comes from Carrie Peyton with Sacramento Bee newspaper.  You may ask your question.

>> Hi.  Thanks for taking this question.  As we continue to do genetic analyses of these virus throughout the southern hemisphere flu season, what markers, if we start seeing changes in different markers, which ones would be especially troubling.  What areas of the genome do we not want to see change or would be early signs of it changing in ways that could make it much more prominent? 

>> This is Michael Shaw, there’s several critical parts of the genome that we look at.  Obviously the one primary concern right now is the determinants of resistance to the antiviral agents.  That’s going to be a high priority to continue monitoring.  Also any potential changes in the surface proteins that could potentially complicate selection of a vaccine strain.  As you know, under ordinary circumstances circulating influenza varies a great deal which is why the vaccine has to be updated every year.  There is the possibility that once it starts circulating more wide lane and different populations that you’re going to see, subpopulations popping up that could not be reactive with whatever vaccine strain might be chosen.  So we just have to keep an eye on changes in general, but the ones we look for in particular are the ones that are affecting the genetic makeup of the proteins that react with the vaccine and antiviral resistance or susceptibility.

>> Thanks very much.  Next question.

>> Thank you.  Our next question comes from Mike Shope with Associated Press.  You may ask your question.

>> Here’s the second question I was trying to ask earlier.  There’s a little bit more detail on the chronic conditions that the severe cases in the U.S., especially in the cases of the two deaths, the 22-month-old child had it looks like four conditions and a pregnant woman had several including autoimmune disease that was under treatment.  Can you tell me about those constellations of underlying conditions.  Would seasonal flu have killed those patients given those conditions?  Or are you learning anything about the patients who suffered severely who had underlying conditions?  What’s working together there? 

>> This is Fatimah Dawood.  I think we’re still learning about what patients are still most at risk for swine origin influenza virus and complication of that infection.  But what we do know from seasonal influenza is there are groups of people with characteristics with a higher risk.  That includes children younger than age 5, people with chronic underlying medical conditions.  Pregnant women and adults older than 65 years of a and one thing that we looked at in the 642 patients that were described in this paper and then in the subset of patients who were hospitalized, we had data for 22 patients.  About half of those patients had one of those characteristics.  Which does suggest that those groups of people may be at higher risk.  Those groups may not be the only groups but certainly we are seeing that those groups are well represented amongst the people who are hospitalized at this point. 

>> Thank you it, Mike.  Next question.

>> Thank you, our next question comes from Elizabeth Sweeth with “USA Today.”  You may ask your question.

>> Thanks again.  Just a quick question, I’m reading these paper, some of the facts are actually from May 5th.  I’m wondering when are these going to published and have you all ever done this quick a turnaround before I don’t recall having seen it.

>> This is Lyn.  I may be here the longest of anyone at this table.  I have never seen such a paper come out so quickly, I don’t think.  Is that what the question was? 

>> Right.  I mean there’s data in there from two days ago.  When I’m wondering when is it going to come out in print?  From your memories, some of the AIDS papers came out quickly, but quickly went three or four weeks.  I have never seen anything show up two days later.

>> I think print of both of these papers is going to come out the first week of July. 

>> This is Carolyn Bridges, but I understand these version are available online to anyone, not just by subscription, anyone would have access to these papers. 

>> This is Fatimah Dawood.  I would just add to that this paper is an effort by so many people in county and state health departments as well as CDC to really make this information available as soon as possible to people. 

>> Yeah, and this is Michael Shaw.  I want to emphasize we were getting this genetic information out basically as soon as we had it.  We had the first gene segments up there in April 25 and made special arrangements at NCBI and NIH to have them released essentially as they were submitted so.  April 27th, things started to getting up on the NIH, NCBI website right away as soon as we had the data.  There was no holding back of it.

>> Operator, this is Dave.  I think that was our last call.  So I want to thank everybody for taking the time to join us today to ask questions.  We’ll plan another daily update briefing tomorrow, regular CDC press briefing.  Thanks, everyone. 

>> Thank you.  At this time, that does end this conference.  All parties may disconnect. 

End

####

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Link to transcripts:

http://www.cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t090507b.htm

H1N1, Swine flu, Obama, flu shots, Baxter International, Chicago IL, pandemic, corruption, influenza A, CDC, Obama ties to Baxter, Owned stock, political contributions, generated bird flu?, Lethal Vaccine?, modeled after the 1918 flu, Chinese connection

I take the responsibility of producing articles and presenting information very seriously. Since the inception of this blog, just over a year ago, the readership has steadily grown and coupled with the fact that people have come to rely on this blog for credible information in the absence of reliable, accurate reporting from the MSM, the pressure to provide timely, credible reports has increased. There sometimes is a fine line between withholding important information and doing something that resembles crying fire in a crowded theatre. This is truly a serious responsibility.

For several months I have been receiving reports from credible sources, some, ex military officers. The reports were about coming flu pandemics and conspiracies to harm and control the American public. These reports were compelling and had more credibility in the context of the Obama camp coming to power and making rapid changes based on fear and contrived scenarios in the housing and financial markets. The question before me then was should I present this information or let the dust settle and gather more information. Today the CDC provided an update at 11:00 AM ET about the current status of the H1N1, Swine flu. Here is a sentence from the report:

“The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1) continues to expand in the United States. CDC expects that more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming days and weeks.”

CDC update

Earlier today the Citizen Wells blog reported that the Obama Administration was considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign of three flu shots.

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After reading these updates I decided that it was time to share some of the emails I received in March 2009 along with some additional research on why I and others are concerned about any plans the Obama administration has in response to a potential flu pandemic or contrived pandemic.

Three emails that I received in March 2009:

From a retired military officer

March 10, 2009

“The one important thing you need to know now is: the Avian Bird Flu has been mixed into vaccines.  Get things you need now in event of Quarantine. Epidemic outbreaks are reason for Quarantine and Martial Law. So this could have been done accidentally or purposely.  May want to get Echinacea, lots of Vitamin C, Nano-silver to help fight. Source: www.organics4u.org.  Mainstream Media has a BLACKOUT on this ——–as of yesterday. May have lifted by now?”

 

From a long time commenter and helper

March 17, 2009

“If that wasn’t enough, I logged in on Friday March 13 to look at a few things. Knowing I was banned from posting links I tried to post an article on the page of a friend/colleague. The article came from www.naturalnews.comregarding a company named Baxter, associated with Bayer, which sent flu vaccines tainted with active bird flu (H5N1) to 18 different countries (http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html). It was an independent Microbiology Lab in Canada that blew the whistle. A message appeared that stated I was blocked from posting links, and the next thing I knew my account was disabled.
That my account was disabled is no big deal—meeting people in person to talk about the issues is much more gratifying; civility is vital when trying to discuss controversial topics. Moreover, it’s just as easy to create a new account or join a new social networking site altogether. But the point is, even in a virtual realm, our liberties of free speech are, with every account deletion, being removed.”
From the retired military officer

March 18, 2009

“Dear Friends,   URGENT URGENT URGENT  ==== I have hesitated to release this until substantiated.  Please review ALL the information. It takes some time I know —but our lives and those of our children and our future is more than worth it. I will hold off on further e-mails until you have had time to digest and work this.  It is a matter of LIFE and DEATH.
 
This is a diabolical plan to KILL Americans and confiscate our Private Property for  China’s use. This is designed to happen soon because Americans are waking up.  All the information is here.  I just got off the phone with Dr. Carley. Contact your State Legislators immediately to get the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act rescinded in your state if it exists. Share ALL this information with them after you have gone through it and are convinced (like me).  If you can trust your US Congressman/Senator – share this information with them as well. This must be STOPPED before it begins.  I have contacted the following in Florida: Reps. Murzin, Ford, Sansom and Evers. We could use more to  get involved.  US Congressman Jeff Miller’s office.
I have had this information since Thursday of last week.  I have spent the last six days reviewing it, researching it, listening to the two doctors (Carley and Ott) involved speak about it and finished speaking last night with Dr. Ott on a radio program where he was the guest.  This is no JOKE. When I asked him if he had been threatened because of this information, he said yes and stated for the record on the program that 38 American and international microbiologists have been killed whose intentions were to divulge this diabolical Eugenics/genocidal plot.
 
This is a plot between the Power Elite and China to kill us with a Lethal Vaccine that has been modeled after the 1918 Flu (which was most likely planned as well)  but has been greatly enhanced. A record of the Vice Chairman of China’s military commission below indicates they must kill Americans on our own soil and preserve the land and air for livability. Already large containers with holes that hold about 3 bodies are being shipped into the US in the thousands. Many of the Detention Center have crematoriums as well to burn the bodies.
 
There will be a “generated” bird flu (it doesn’t normally kill humans unless tampered with to do that per Dr. Ott) pandemic which will require this  mandatory vaccine – designed to target 18-40 year olds.  An almost 10 year Genome Mapping project resulted In identifying the susceptible cells in that age group.  The thinking is that the children and the elderly will go along with a new regime.  Already, the media has been planting the bird flu pandemic possibility…………..
 
Already, the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act is in place in 39 states  (Florida and NC included) under the HHS which make Vaccines for a Pandemic mandatory.  It is a felony if one won’t take it – they go to quarantine area – Detention Camps – until they do. There is a Private Property confiscation clause both in it and in the Executive Order. All the data is below. It’s voluminous.  There are so many IN on THE FIX in all levels of government, it’s hard to know HOW we can avoid this PLOT.  I know you all are resourceful and have many contacts. Interestingly enough, the new HHS (Kansas Gov – Katherine Sebelius) is a member of the Bilderberg Group. She would oversee this operation.
 
Dr. Ott was on a program last night and I got a lot of questions answered. Dr. Carley will be on www.tsrn.us on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Central on Michelle’s show.   He was going to send me the list. We have GOT to expose this immediately.
 
I am working from my end here.  Because this plot goes all the way to the top we will need many working to break and get an investigation started and it stopped.
Part of it almost happened within the last few weeks as Baxter  (based out of Chicago and BO owns stock in this company)was found to have “mysteriously” gotten bird flu virus (the one that’s been specially made to kill) mixed up with vaccines.  Canada broke that story.  Dr. Ott stated that Baxter Headquarters is in Chicago.
 
 But it’s going to take hundreds if not more contacts because of the pervasiveness of this plot.
 
Dr. Ott says that his contacts in the Chinese Embassy (and he was there for the Olympics) tell him that Hillary Clinton did in fact deliver an eminent domain agreement in the event we did default on loans -our land would be taken.
I will send more info as I receive it.” 
 
The first email was sent March 10, 2009

Remember when you read this article that Barack Obama has long time, documented in court records, ties to crime and corruption in Chicago and Illinois including, but not limited to, Tony Rezko, Stuart Levine, Rod Blagojevich and a host of others.

Baxter International Inc. HQ in Chicago IL

March 13, 2003

“Baxter International Inc. jarred investors Thursday, disclosing that earnings will fall short in 2003 because of even poorer-than-anticipated sales of the company’s top-selling blood therapies.”

“This time, investors punished Baxter with authority. Shares fell nearly 21 percent, or $5.67 a share”

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April 16, 2009

“Baxter’s first-quarter earnings surpasses Wall Street expectations”

“Baxter International Inc. increased its first-quarter profit by 20 percent experiencing robust market growth amidst a weakened global economy.”

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April 25, 2009

“Baxter to work to contain Mexico flu outbreak”

“Deerfield-based medical product giant Baxter International Inc. is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the spread of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, the company confirmed today.

Baxter, which has a growing vaccine business, has worked with foreign countries in the past to develop vaccines for the H5N1 virus commonly known as bird flu. Baxter has a cell-based technology that allows the company to more rapidly produce vaccines in the event of a pandemic than a decades-old method that uses eggs to process vaccines and can take weeks or even months longer.”

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April 27, 2009

“Swine flu: Baxter seeks swine flu sample to begin work on vaccine”

“Baxter confirmed over the weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S.

Shares of Baxter were up 2.4 percent, or $1.16, to $49.23 a share in trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.”

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Obama and Baxter have ties to Indonesia

February 7, 2007

“Indonesia, which has had more human cases of avian flu than any other country, has stopped sending samples of the virus to the World Health Organization, apparently because it is negotiating a contract to sell the samples to an American vaccine company, a W.H.O. official said yesterday.”

“Indonesia signed a memorandum of agreement with Baxter today.”

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Obama’s ties to Baxter in addition to Chicago HQ

February 22, 2005

“Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.

One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.”

“But he put $50,000 to $100,000 into an account at UBS, which his aides say was recommended to him by a wealthy friend, George W. Haywood, who was also a major investor in both Skyterra and AVI BioPharma, public securities filings show.”

“Within two weeks of his purchase of the biotech stock that Feb. 22, Mr. Obama initiated what he has called “one of my top priorities since arriving in the Senate,” a push to increase federal financing to fight avian flu.”

“His first step came on March 4, 2005, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his request for $25 million to help contain the disease in Asia; the full Senate later approved that measure. And in April 2005, he introduced a bill calling for more research on avian flu drugs and urging the government to increase its stockpiles of antiviral medicines.

Mr. Obama repeated this call in a letter that Aug. 9 to Michael O. Levitt, the health and human services secretary. And in September 2005, Mr. Obama and Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, succeeded in amending another bill to provide $3.8 billion for battling the flu.

Meanwhile, the drug company in which he invested, AVI BioPharma, had been working to develop its own medicine to treat avian flu victims. In a conference call with Wall Street analysts on March 8, 2005, the company’s chairman, Denis R. Burger, said the firm was “aggressively going forward” with its avian flu research and hoped to work with federal agencies on it.”

Read more

April 28, 2005

“Senator Obama introduces the AVIAN Act (S. 969). Senator Obama introduces the first comprehensive bill to address the threat of an avian influenza pandemic.”

Read more

Obama warns of a flu pandemic in 2005

June 6, 2005

“Grounding a Pandemic

By BARACK OBAMA and RICHARD LUGAR”

“It is essential for the international community, led by the United States, to take decisive action to prevent a pandemic.”

“So what should we do? Recently, the World Health Organization called for more money and attention to be devoted to effective preventive action, appealing for $100 million.” 

“Accelerating research into avian flu vaccines and antiviral drugs.”

“Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, is its chairman.”

Read more

Baxter International is being investigated.
Baxter International has indeed been investigated for killing people with contaminated Heparin from a Chinese supplier and sending flu viruses to labs in Europe.

We have the most corrupt person that has ever been in the White House, with ties to corruption and crime, who has hidden his past, refused to produce his long form birth certificate and habitually lied to the American public. On at least the level of corruption ties, Obama is the Manchurian Candidate of the likes of Tony Rezko and George Soros. Is Obama the Manchurian Candidate of a foreign power? I would not be surprised.

Do not overreact or underreact to this flu.

Please stay informed and ponder carefully any decision to take flu shots.


I will leave you with this parting comment:

“Veteran flu watchers all recall that in 1918, the spring wave of H1N1 was very mild. It was the second wave — cooked in the summer and fall of 1918, in the trenches of WWI — where the virus gained its ability to kill by the millions. And it was the third wave that incapacitated President Wilson (NOT a stroke, but Spanish Flu in April 1919) that allowed the punitive actions of Britain and France against aggressor Germany to move forward, and sowed the seeds for the Third Reich. That is your history lesson for today.

A swine pandemic was feared by experts long before the 1976 swine flu debacle. This is what caused the major calamity that we now call the Swine Flu Debacle.  This new strain, with its curious mixture of swine, avian and human genes, is headed for an uncertain future.  But we cannot simply assume that a lack of mortality or lethality is necessarily good news in the long run.”

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H1N1 Flu, Swine Flu, CDC update, May 6, 2009, 11:00 AM ET, Deaths, outbreak of novel influenza A H1N1 continues to expand in the United States, more hospitalizations

The latest status of influenza A , H1N1, Swine Flu,  in the US from the CDC, May 6, 2009, 11:00 AM ET:

“The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1) continues to expand in the United States. CDC expects that more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming days and weeks.

CDC continues to take aggressive action to respond to the expanding outbreak. CDC’s response goals are to reduce spread and illness severity, and provide information to help health care providers, public health officials and the public address the challenges posed by this emergency.

CDC is issuing updated interim guidance daily in response to the rapidly evolving situation.

School Guidance

This includes updated interim guidance for schools and childcare facilities on preventing the spread of novel influenza A (H1N1) virus. At this time, CDC recommends the primary means to reduce spread of influenza in schools focus on early identification of ill students and staff, staying home when sick, and good cough etiquette and frequent hand washing. Decisions about school closure should be at the discretion of local authorities based on local considerations.

Increased Testing

CDC has developed a PCR diagnostic test kit to detect this novel H1N1 virus and has now distributed test kits to all states in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The test kits are being shipped internationally as well. This will allow states and other countries to test for this new virus. This increase in testing capacity is likely to result in an increase in the number of reported confirmed cases in this country, which should provide a more accurate picture of the burden of disease in the United States.”

Read more:

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/

Obama administration, Fall flu shots, Fall 2009, three flu shots, 3 unprecedented, new swine flu virus, annual seasonal influenza, Washington Post article May 6, 2009, federal health officials, pandemic experts are working with the administration

Be on alert, the government is “watching out for us” again.

From the Washington Post, May 6, 2009:

“Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Obama administration is considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign that could entail giving Americans three flu shots — one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe.
If enacted, the multibillion-dollar effort would represent the first time that top federal health officials have asked Americans to get more than one flu vaccine in a year, raising serious challenges concerning production, distribution and the ability to track potentially severe side effects.

Another option, said Dale Morse, chairman of the advisory committee on immunization practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is adding to the seasonal flu shot an ingredient targeted at the new virus.
Experts in and out of the administration are evaluating a raft of complicated issues, including who ought to receive an inoculation against the swine flu and whether private vaccine makers can simultaneously manufacture the standard 180 million doses as well as up to 600 million rounds of a new vaccine.

“We are moving forward with making a vaccine,” said Robin Robinson, a director with the Department of Health and Human Services who oversees pandemic response programs. Robinson said that although a formal decision about the swine flu vaccine has not been made, if the government goes ahead, it would probably produce two doses for all Americans. If the threat diminishes, he said, health officials could decide to produce doses for only a portion of the population.

Vaccine and pandemic experts are working with the administration to determine how to produce, test, track and educate the public about two different influenza vaccines in the same flu season.

“They have never tried this before, and there is going to be a great deal of confusion,” said William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Memories of the nation’s earlier experience with a swine flu vaccine present another challenge. In 1976, hundreds of Americans developed neurological disorders after they were vaccinated for a swine flu strain. The public was asked to receive one of two vaccines developed to combat the strain.

Health officials have asked manufacturers to ramp up production of the seasonal vaccine scheduled for rollout this fall to make way for the possible mass production of a swine flu vaccine.”

Read more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050503378.html?hpid=topnews

Make certain you stay informed on this subject.

Microbiologists, experts on infectious diseases, Deaths, mysterious deaths, murders

The following list of microbiologists and experts on infectious diseases that died under mysterious causes was sent to me on March 20, 2009:

#43: David Kelly, age 59. Died: July 18, 2003.

British biological weapons expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while

walking near his home. Kelly was the Ministry of Defense’s chief scientific officer

and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the

Foreign Office’s non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological

weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994

to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only

in this country, but in the world.

#1 Jose Trias, Died: May 19, 1994

wife were murdered in their Chevy Chase, Maryland home. They met with a

friend of theirs, a journalist, before the day of their murder and told him of their

plan to expose HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) funding of “special ops”

research. Grant money that goes to HHMI is actually diverted to special black

ops research projects.

#s22-24: Avishai Berkman, age 50

Amiramp Eldor

Matzner

All Died: November 24, 2001

the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding the alarm

that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by terrorists;

including the head of the Hematology department at Israel’s Ichilov Hospital, as

well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University

School of Medicine. World experts in hematology and blood clotting. Five

microbiologists in this list of the first eight people that died mysteriously in

airplane crashes worked on cutting edge microbiology research; and, four of the

five were doing virtually identical research; research that has global political and

financial significance.

#16-#20: Five Unnamed Microbiologists. Died: October 4, 2001

Five unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down by a missile

near the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to Russia;

business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in medical research or public

health. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as four or

five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are

homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the

scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research facilities there, and 13 full

universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.

25: Dr. David Schwartz , age 57. Died: December

10, 2001

Loudon County, Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high

priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged. He was extremely

well respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.

Three teens that were into the occult were charged with murder in the slashing

death.

#27: Dr. Don Wiley, age 57. Vanished: December 16,

2001

University, top Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found

on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was heavily involved

in research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on

November 16, leaving the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Advisory Dinner at The

Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed

no signs of intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him. Body

found floating one month later. Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana

found the body of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the

molecular biologist was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis.

On January 14, 2002 (almost two months later) Shelby County Medical Examiner

O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Dr. Wiley’s death to be

“accidental”; the result of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de

Soto Bridge. Smith said there were paint marks on Wiley’s rental car similar to

the paint used on construction signs on the bridge, and that the car’s right front

hubcap was missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs

Dr. Wiley hit.

#28: Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik, age 64.

Died: December 23, 2001

home. Two different dates have been reported: November 21 and December

23. Death ruled stroke. He had defected from Russia to UK. He had been the

#1 scientist in the FSU’s bioweapons program. It was thought he was involved

with exhuming the bodies of the 10 London victims of the 1919 Type A flu

epidemic. Pasechnik died six weeks after the planned exhumations were

announced. On November 23, 2001, Pasechnik’s death was reported in the New

York Times as having occurred two days earlier. Pasechnik’s death was made in

the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause

of death was a stroke. Dr. Davis was the member of British intelligence who debriefed

Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Pasechnik was heavily

involved in DNA sequencing research. He had just founded a company like three

other microbiologists working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics. Dr.

Vladimir Pasechnik was the boss of William C. Patrick III who holds 5 patents on

the militarized anthrax used by the United States. Patrick is now a private

biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by

which anthrax spores could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per

gram. No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per

gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern United States last fall was

concentrated at one trillion spores per gram.

#33: Dr. Vladamir “Victor” Korshunov, age 56. Died:

February 9, 2002.

Korshunov was head of the microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State

Medical University. He was found dead in the entrance to his home with a head

injury. On Feb. 9 the Russian newspaper Pravda reported that Korshunov had

probably invented a vaccine protecting from any biological arm.

#38: Steven Mostow, age 63. Died: March 25, 2002.

the country’s leading infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was

associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in

a plane crash near Centennial Airport. He was known as “Dr. Flu” for his

expertise in treating influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of

the country’s leading infectious disease experts.

#49: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62. Died: January 24, 2004.

massive heart attack. Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class. It is

interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it “gave out”. Dr. Shope and Dr.

Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for

Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the

deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as

bioweaponized ones.

#48: Robert Shope, age 74. Died: January 23, 2004.

Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics, Dies died of lung transplant

complications. Later purported to have died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

which can be caused by either environmental stimulus or a VIRUS. It would not

be hard to administer a drug that would cause Dr. Shope’s lung transplant to

either be rejected or to cause complications from the transplant. Dr. Shope led

the group of scientists who had an 11 MILLION dollar fed grant to ensure the

new lab would keep in the nasty bugs. Dr. Shope also met with and worked with

Dr. Mike Kiley on the UTMB Galveston lab upgrade to BSL 4. When the upgrade

would be complete the lab will host the most hazardous pathogens known to man

especially tropical and emerging diseases as well as bioweapons.

#50: Vadake Srinivasan, Died: March 13, 2004.

guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. Death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from

India, was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in

academia, and held two doctorate degrees.

#53: William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004, last seen late April

2004.

University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the

New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He emerged as one of the world’s

leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing multiple

levels of biocontainment facilities.

#55: Antonina Presnyakova, age 46. Died: May 25, 2004.

scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia died after an

accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and officials said the accident

had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the State Research Center of

Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in Soviet times specialized

in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons. Vector has been a leading

recipient of aid in an American program.

#57: Dr., age 45. Died: June 24, 2004.

Assefa Tulu

department in 1997 and served for five years as the county’s lone epidemiologist.

He was charged with trackcing the health of the county, including the spread of

diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also designed a system for

detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often

coordinated efforts to address major health concerns in Dallas County, such as

the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few years, and worked with the media

to inform the public. Found face down, dead in his office. The Dallas County

Epidemiologist died of a hemorrhagic stroke.

#58: Dr. Paul Norman, age 52. Died: June 27, 2004.

Wiltshire. Killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in

Devon. Expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world

lecturing on defending against the scourge of weapons of mass destruction. He

was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the

chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of Defense’s

laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by officials

from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of the aircraft was

removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough.

#61: Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53. Died July 2, 2004

was a Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam

spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax

scare in 2001. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. As an

expert in bioterrorism, his team came up with a new technology used against

biological and chemical agents.

#64: Dr. John Badwey, age 54. Died: July 21,

2004.

waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Suddenly developed pneumonia

like symptoms then died in two weeks. Biochemist at Harvard Medical School

specializing in infectious diseases.

#68: John R. La Montagne, age 61. Died:

November 2, 2004.

pulmonary embolism. PhD, Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie

Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director. Expert in AIDS Program work and

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

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British biological weapons expert, was said to have slashed his own wrists while

walking near his home. Kelly was the Ministry of Defense’s chief scientific officer

and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat, and to the

Foreign Office’s non-proliferation department. The senior adviser on biological

weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994

to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only

in this country, but in the world.

#1 Jose Trias, Died: May 19, 1994

. Trias and his

wife were murdered in their Chevy Chase, Maryland home. They met with a

friend of theirs, a journalist, before the day of their murder and told him of their

plan to expose HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) funding of “special ops”

research. Grant money that goes to HHMI is actually diverted to special black

ops research projects.

 

#s22-24: Avishai Berkman, age 50

.(no photo)

Amiramp Eldor

, age 59 YaacovMatzner

, age 54

All Died: November 24, 2001

. Another airplane crash kills 3 scientists. At about

the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding the alarm

that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by terrorists;

including the head of the Hematology department at Israel’s Ichilov Hospital, as

well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University

School of Medicine. World experts in hematology and blood clotting. Five

microbiologists in this list of the first eight people that died mysteriously in

airplane crashes worked on cutting edge microbiology research; and, four of the

five were doing virtually identical research; research that has global political and

financial significance.

#16-#20: Five Unnamed Microbiologists. Died: October 4, 2001

. Four of

Five unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down by a missile

near the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to Russia;

business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in medical research or public

health. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as four or

five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are

homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the

scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research facilities there, and 13 full

universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.

25: Dr. David Schwartz , age 57. Died: December

10, 2001

. Murdered by stabbing with what appeared to be a sword in rural home

Loudon County, Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high

priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged. He was extremely

well respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.

Three teens that were into the occult were charged with murder in the slashing

death.

#27: Dr. Don Wiley, age 57. Vanished: December 16,

2001

. Molecular Biologist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard

University, top Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found

on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was heavily involved

in research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on

November 16, leaving the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Advisory Dinner at The

Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed

no signs of intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him. Body

found floating one month later. Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana

found the body of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the

molecular biologist was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis.

On January 14, 2002 (almost two months later) Shelby County Medical Examiner

O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Dr. Wiley’s death to be

“accidental”; the result of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de

Soto Bridge. Smith said there were paint marks on Wiley’s rental car similar to

the paint used on construction signs on the bridge, and that the car’s right front

hubcap was missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs

Dr. Wiley hit.

#28: Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik, age 64.

Died: December 23, 2001

. Found dead in Wiltshire, England, a village near his

home. Two different dates have been reported: November 21 and December

23. Death ruled stroke. He had defected from Russia to UK. He had been the

#1 scientist in the FSU’s bioweapons program. It was thought he was involved

with exhuming the bodies of the 10 London victims of the 1919 Type A flu

epidemic. Pasechnik died six weeks after the planned exhumations were

announced. On November 23, 2001, Pasechnik’s death was reported in the New

York Times as having occurred two days earlier. Pasechnik’s death was made in

the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause

of death was a stroke. Dr. Davis was the member of British intelligence who debriefed

Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Pasechnik was heavily

involved in DNA sequencing research. He had just founded a company like three

other microbiologists working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics. Dr.

Vladimir Pasechnik was the boss of William C. Patrick III who holds 5 patents on

the militarized anthrax used by the United States. Patrick is now a private

biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by

which anthrax spores could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per

gram. No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per

gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern United States last fall was

concentrated at one trillion spores per gram.

#33: Dr. Vladamir “Victor” Korshunov, age 56. Died:

February 9, 2002.

Found dead on a Moscow street. Head was bashed in.

Korshunov was head of the microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State

Medical University. He was found dead in the entrance to his home with a head

injury. On Feb. 9 the Russian newspaper Pravda reported that Korshunov had

probably invented a vaccine protecting from any biological arm.

#38: Steven Mostow, age 63. Died: March 25, 2002.

One of

the country’s leading infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was

associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in

a plane crash near Centennial Airport. He was known as “Dr. Flu” for his

expertise in treating influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of

the country’s leading infectious disease experts.

#49: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62. Died: January 24, 2004.

Died of

massive heart attack. Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class. It is

interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it “gave out”. Dr. Shope and Dr.

Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for

Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the

deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as

bioweaponized ones.

#48: Robert Shope, age 74. Died: January 23, 2004.

Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics, Dies died of lung transplant

complications. Later purported to have died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

which can be caused by either environmental stimulus or a VIRUS. It would not

be hard to administer a drug that would cause Dr. Shope’s lung transplant to

either be rejected or to cause complications from the transplant. Dr. Shope led

the group of scientists who had an 11 MILLION dollar fed grant to ensure the

new lab would keep in the nasty bugs. Dr. Shope also met with and worked with

Dr. Mike Kiley on the UTMB Galveston lab upgrade to BSL 4. When the upgrade

would be complete the lab will host the most hazardous pathogens known to man

especially tropical and emerging diseases as well as bioweapons.

#50: Vadake Srinivasan, Died: March 13, 2004.

Microbiologist crashed car into

guard rail in Baton Rouge, LA. Death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from

India, was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in

academia, and held two doctorate degrees.

#53: William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004, last seen late April

2004.

Body found in three suitcases floating in Chesapeake Bay. He was NJ

University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the

New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He emerged as one of the world’s

leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing multiple

levels of biocontainment facilities.

#55: Antonina Presnyakova, age 46. Died: May 25, 2004.

A Russian

scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia died after an

accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and officials said the accident

had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the State Research Center of

Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in Soviet times specialized

in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons. Vector has been a leading

recipient of aid in an American program.

#57: Dr.Assefa Tulu

, age 45. Died: June 24, 2004.

, age 45. Died: June 24, 2004.

Dr. Tulu joined the health

department in 1997 and served for five years as the county’s lone epidemiologist.

He was charged with trackcing the health of the county, including the spread of

diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS and measles. He also designed a system for

detecting a bioterrorism attack involving viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often

coordinated efforts to address major health concerns in Dallas County, such as

the West Nile virus outbreaks of the past few years, and worked with the media

to inform the public. Found face down, dead in his office. The Dallas County

Epidemiologist died of a hemorrhagic stroke.

#58: Dr. Paul Norman, age 52. Died: June 27, 2004.

From Salisbury

Wiltshire. Killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in

Devon. Expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world

lecturing on defending against the scourge of weapons of mass destruction. He

was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the

chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of Defense’s

laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by officials

from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of the aircraft was

removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough.

#61: Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53. Died July 2, 2004

from unknown causes. He

was a Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam

spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax

scare in 2001. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. As an

expert in bioterrorism, his team came up with a new technology used against

biological and chemical agents.

#64: Dr. John Badwey, age 54. Died: July 21,

2004.

Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed disposal of sewage

waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Suddenly developed pneumonia

like symptoms then died in two weeks. Biochemist at Harvard Medical School

specializing in infectious diseases.

#68: John R. La Montagne, age 61. Died:

November 2, 2004.

Died while in Mexico, no cause stated, later disclosed as

pulmonary embolism. PhD, Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie

Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director. Expert in AIDS Program work and

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Bird Flu Distributed by Dept. of Homeland Security, video, Abany NY, Menands New York, Fattah Muslim, 3 Star retired African American General, Power hour radio, Driver had shot to protect himself and family, 109th Air Guard, FEMA trains

This is from Repubx May 2, 2009:

“This report is chalk-full of explicit details. Notice the person reporting mentions a Muslim named “Fattah”, over-seeing the pick-ups of this stuff along with a 3 Star *retired* African American General.

The driver, Fattah, and the retired General all get paid handsomly in cash from funds at the Bank of America.

Bank of America just bought Countrywide Home-loans, who took the biggest hit during housing crisis that triggered the rest economy break-down. The Housing crisis was generated by Fannie Mae using the identical predatory lending scheme mastered by Obama’s Mother, Stanley A. Dunham, and her boss at the Ford Foundation – Tim Geithner’s (new Treasury Secretary) Dad – Paul Geithner.

Everything is done at night – trips to cities all over the US. Driver had shot to protect himself and family. He isn’t told any details of what he is transferring.

Everyone handling (pick-ups) the stuff are in full White suits – completely protected.

Higher-up NYPD officials were notified and replied by saying “This is bigger than both of us and we’re not touching it with a 10 foot Pole”.”

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Obama, swine flu, H1N1 virus, CDC, United States, 1918 H1N1, Germany latest country, US scientists race to prepare a vaccine against new strain of flu

From ABC News, Friday, May 1, 2009:

“Overreaction? Will Swine Flu Become a Run-of-the-Mill Outbreak?

More Schools Continue to Close, Even if They Don’t Have Confirmed Cases of Flu”

“President Obama said today that while the United States is still preparing for the worst in the wake of the swine flu scare, the outbreak could end up falling short of a pandemic and run its course just “like ordinary flus” that pass through the country every winter.

“I’m optimistic that we’re going to be able to manage this effectively,” Obama said.

“We don’t know for certain that this will end up being more severe than other flus,” he said. “It may turn out that H1N1 runs its course like ordinary flus.”

The head of the CDC’s influenza division Dr. Nancy Cox, said today that preliminary research suggests that the make up of this current virus is lacking some key components of the 1918 flu pandemic that killed between 30-50 million people and to which the new strain has recently been compared.

“What we have found by looking very carefully at the sequence of the new H1N1 virus is that we’re not seeing the markers for virulence that we saw in 1918 virus,” she said. But she added that scientists still may not know all they need to know about the 1918 H1N1 strain and are “continuing to look for virulence markers.”

Dr. Julie Gerberding, former head of the CDC, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that we “have to be careful not to over-rely on that kind of information because these flu viruses always evolve.”

“Officials still remain cautious about the outbreak. Friday afternoon a United Airlines flight from Germany to Washington D.C. was diverted to Boston after a passenger complained of flu-like symptoms.

Meanwhile, as more schools across the United States close in response to the swine flu outbreak, some estimate that a quarter of a million schoolchildren were out of school this morning.”

The CDC reports a total of 141 cases and one confirmed death in the United States, with more flu cases likely to come as state and federal health officials analyze samples.

 

The latest state to join the list of state-confirmed cases as of this afternoon was Florida, where Gov. Charlie Crist said two cases of swine flu — an 11-year-old boy and the 17-year-old girl in different counties — had been verified.

On Friday, Germany became the latest country to report a swine flu infection. A total of 11 countries now have at least one case, and the number of confirmed cases is 331, according to the World Health Organization, up from 257 Thursday.

U.S. authorities have promised to produce enough swine flu vaccine for the country, but the it won’t be available until fall at the earliest.”

“U.S. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Craig Vanderwagen told lawmakers that it would take several months before pilot tests on humans could ensure that any vaccine would be safe and effective against the flu. Assuming that everything goes well, mass production of the vaccine could begin in the fall.

“We think 600 million doses is achievable in a six-month time frame” from that fall start, he said, adding, “I don’t want anybody to have false expectations. The science is challenging here.”

Until then, the government has stockpiled anti-viral medicines to help ease symptoms of the flu and prevent further infection. So far, the medications are said to have worked effectively.

In the midst of concerns that the current outbreak could resurface as a new flu strain in the fall, U.S. authorities are now shipping millions of doses of anti-flu drugs to all states.”

“Did an Obama Staffer Bring the Virus to the U.S.?

The Obama administration may have had a brush with the swine flu outbreak after a member of the White House advance team on Obama’s recent trip to Mexico apparently came down with the disease.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the staff member, whom he did not identify, began to feel ill April 16 after he accompanied Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to Mexico in advance of Obama’s arrival. Two days later, Gibbs said the staff member returned to the United States on a United Airlines flight to Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.

On April 28, the individual’s wife, son and nephew tested positive for H1N1, Gibbs said, adding that samples had been sent to the CDC to determine if it is the same strain of H1N1 that now threatens to spark a global pandemic.”

“The first death from swine flu in the United States occurred Wednesday, when a 22-month-old baby boy in Texas died.

The worst hit state so far is New York, with 51 confirmed cases.”

“Swine Flu Ground Zero

With the flu spreading quickly in the United States and across the globe, the actions of Mexican health officials are under the microscope. Many health experts question whether the government has done enough to contain the flu.

Oscar Barrera, who was diagnosed with the flu Monday and prescribed Tamiflu, said he was sent home by medical officials and simply told to keep away from other people.

Barrera claimed that health officials did not test his pregnant wife and three-year-old son, or anyone in the cell phone shop where he worked, for the flu.

“What worries me most is if the officials don’t do enough to protect my family,” Barrera told ABC News.

According to Mexico’s health ministry, there now have been 12 confirmed deaths of the swine flu in Mexico, but roughly 176 deaths are suspected of having been caused by the virus. There are nearly 3,000 suspected cases.”

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/story?id=7477216&page=1

WHO to stop using swine flu name, H1N1 influenza A, World Health Organization announcement, April 30, 2009, confusion over the danger posed by pigs, Egypt slaughter of pigs, UN food agency concerns

From the Chicago Tribune April 30, 2009.

“WHO to stop using ‘swine flu’ name to avoid confusion over risk from pigs”

“The World Health Organization announced Thursday it will would stop using the term “swine flu” to avoid confusion over the danger posed by pigs. The policy shift came a day after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs in a misguided effort to prevent swine flu.

WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the agriculture industry and the U.N. food agency had expressed concerns that the term “swine flu” was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs.

“Rather than calling this swine flu … we’re going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A,” Thompson said.

The swine flu virus originated in pigs, and has genes from human, bird and pig viruses. Scientists don’t know exactly how it jumped to humans. In the current outbreak, WHO says the virus is being spread from human to human, not from contact with infected pigs.

 

Egypt began slaughtering its roughly 300,000 pigs Wednesday even though experts said swine flu is not linked to pigs and not spread by eating pork. Angry farmers protested the government decree.

In Paris, the World Organization for Animal Health said Thursday “there is no evidence of infection in pigs, nor of humans acquiring infection directly from pigs.”

Killing pigs “will not help to guard against public or animal health risks” presented by the virus and “is inappropriate,” the group said in a statement.”

“WHO also reported the number of confirmed swine flu cases rose to 257 worldwide Thursday, with cases in Mexico rising to 97 from 26, with seven deaths. The WHO confirmed tally from the United States now stands at 109, with one death.

Other confirmed cases include 34 in Canada, 13 in Spain, eight in Britain, three each in Germany and New Zealand, two in Israel and one each in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.”

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/swineflu/sns-ap-un-who-swine-flu,0,7922234.story

Flu, avian flu, Baxter International, Indonesia avian flu, H5N1 virus, World Health Organization, WHO, Indonesia signed a memorandum of agreement with Baxter, February 7, 2007

Here is an interesting  tidbit about Baxter International, a company enmeshed in the controversy surrounding the swine flu pandemic. This news is from the NY Times dated February 7, 2007 and is another connection in common with Obama, Indonesia.

“Indonesia May Sell, Not Give, Bird Flu Virus to Scientists

Published: February 7, 2007”

“Indonesia, which has had more human cases of avian flu than any other country, has stopped sending samples of the virus to the World Health Organization, apparently because it is negotiating a contract to sell the samples to an American vaccine company, a W.H.O. official said yesterday.

The strains of the H5N1 virus circulating in Indonesia are considered crucial to developing up-to-date vaccines and following mutations in the virus. The official, Dr. David L. Heymann, said the agency was “clearly concerned” about the development and was in talks with Indonesia.

Dr. Heymann, the agency’s chief of communicable diseases, said he was not blaming the company involved, Baxter Healthcare of Deerfield, Ill. “But now that this has happened,” he said, “we have to sit down and figure out how to rectify it.”

Indonesia signed a memorandum of agreement with Baxter today.

A Baxter spokeswoman said the company had not asked Indonesia to stop cooperating with the W.H.O. She added that the agreement under negotiation would not give it exclusive access to Indonesian strains.

The virus has not yet mutated into a strain easily transmitted among humans. But it has infected 81 people in Indonesia, 63 of them fatally. It killed more people in 2006 than in any previous year and is out of control in poultry in Indonesia, Egypt and West Africa, so experts fear it as much as ever.”

““The W.H.O. should be their biggest friend. Indonesia has a virus with a 70 percent case fatality, and we don’t know why. If they want to work with the best laboratories in the world, they should make sure that virus samples can get out.”

With human cases breaking out in Egypt, Nigeria and elsewhere, new pandemic flu vaccines could be produced from other strains, Dr. Monto added. Indonesia’s Asian neighbors are the most threatened by its outbreak and may press it to back down, he said.”

“The strains are usually rendered harmless by laboratories that consult with the W.H.O., and the genes responsible for the ability of the virus’s outer coat to invade cells are spliced to older, well-known strains. Then this “seed virus” is given free to private companies that produce millions of doses. ”

“The release of sequences — not the virus itself, but the pattern of nucleotides in its genes, which shows what mutations it has made — is a touchy subject because some scientists try to keep the data secret until they can publish scientific papers.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/world/asia/07birdflu.html?ref=world