When Swine Flu isn't swine flu

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When Swine Flu isn't swine flu

- Monday, April 27, 2009

Here we go again. Another media beat up. Make a huge story out of...

what??? An influenza virus which has caused thousands of cases, which

in that horribly polluted smoggy lung coughing place called Mexico

City, has caused serious pneumonia in some of them, which killed just

over 100 of them. Some thousands of cases you say? Maybe. Cruising

all the medical reports, it's pretty obvious that there are far more

cases than we're being told. More importantly, why call this the

" Swine flu pandemic " ? Where did the media get that idea from? Maybe

some medic whose repeatedly cried wolf, and really needs to justify

their job? They made a cash cow out of the non-existent bird flu, so

why not bolster Wall street yet again. What a sound-bite to get the

adrenalin running! " Swine Flu epidemic here to kill us all " ! It's

time the media got real, and started doing some real journalism; real

reading; and asking some real questions. Like... who called this

particular strain a swine flu virus? Why has there been absolutely NO

contact with pigs in even ONE case, anywhere in the world? Unlike the

media, a professional medical organisation called PROMED has

questioned the name " swine flu " . They say it's a human flu. But just

what sort of human flu? Where did it come from? This is what

<http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1001:8716093219666652::NO::F2400_P10\

01_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,77207>PROMED

has to say:

Paragraph 6 and 7:

Finally, it appears as if no exposure to swine has occurred among

people who have come down with the current novel H1N1 virus. The

virus has elements of human, swine, and avian viruses normally found

in Europe or Asia. It is this genetic analysis of the virus which has

really developed the level of concern for this outbreak. If there

wasn't a match with the US virus the fact that it is being

transmitted out of season and in young, healthy adults might have

even been overlooked. So, in summary, the reason that we are calling

this virus swine flu is the history and evolution of the virus.

It also rests on the fact that some of the genetic analysis indicates

that elements from viruses that have traditionally been found in

swine populations are incorporated. However since we know nothing of

how this particular virus has gotten into the human population but

there apparently is no history of swine exposure, it probably makes

more sense epidemiologically to refer to this simply as an H1N1

influenza virus.

Another

<http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2309swineflu.\

html>internet

item describes the virus this way:

The CDC said genetic sequencing of samples from the first two

patients, California children who lived in adjacent counties, show

that the swine flu virus contains segments from four different

viruses: some North American swine, some North American avian, one

human influenza, and two Eurasian swine.

<http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2109swine.htm\

l>Another

story on the same site said:

The viruses from the two patients are similar, and ....the majority

of their genes, including the hemagglutinin gene, are similar to

those of swine flu viruses that have circulated in US pigs since

about 1999, the CDC reports. But the genes for the neuraminidase (NA)

and matrix (M) proteins are similar to corresponding genes of

Eurasian swine flu viruses. " This particular genetic combination of

swine influenza virus segments has not been recognized previously

among swine or human isolates in the United States, or elsewhere

based on analyses of influenza genomic sequences available on

GenBank, " the report states.

So there you go.

But there's something that doesn't add up here. Exactly WHAT has

this got to do with Mexico, apart from the fact that it " started "

there? If all those viruses orginated everywhere else BUT Mexico,

just why are Mexico pork products being banned? Why is Mexico taking

the rap? Why is no-one asking serious questions about the make up of

this virus?

Even <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386163/>MSN has something

interesting to say:

Near the bottom you read this gem:

CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of

gene segments not seen in people or pigs before. The bug contains

human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from

North America, Europe and Asia.

Health officials have seen mixes of bird, pig and human virus before,

but never such an intercontinental combination with more than one pig

virus in the mix.

Note that word, " intercontinental " . And what about this little

" item " which someone emailed me this morning?

_________________________________________________

Receptor Specificity and Host Adaptation of Recent Swine Influenza Viruses

Primary Author:

Shobana Raghunath (<mailto:shoba@...>shoba@...)

Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

Virginia-land Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

Secondary Authors:

Laure Deflube (<mailto:ladeflub@...>ladeflub@...)

Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

-Cottrone (<mailto:trogersc@...>trogersc@...)

Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

Dan Qiao (<mailto:qiao@...>qiao@...)

Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

Vrushali Chavan (<mailto:vrushali@...>vrushali@...)

Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences

Elankumaran Subbiah (<mailto:kumarans@...>kumarans@...)

Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology

Influenza A viruses (IAV) are generally host specific and they rarely

establish stable lineages in another species. Although whole viruses

may rarely transmit, gene segments can reassort and viruses cross the

species barrier. However, swine influenza A viruses (SIV) have

established stable genetic lineages in turkeys in the United States

in recent years. Despite their uniform ability to bind to

oligosaccharide-containing sialic acids, IAVs show differences in

receptor specificity. The preferential binding to ?-2, 3 (avian) or

?-2, 6 (swine and human)-linked oligosaccharides can be altered by

changes in HA-specific amino acids that influence both host

specificity and cell tropism.

To identify the minimal amino acid changes involved in receptor

specificity and efficient transmission of SIV to turkeys, we have

sequentially passaged five recent triple reassortant H3N2 SIV

isolates from Minnesota in nine to 11 day-old specific-pathogen-free

turkey embryos. Complete nucleotide sequencing of the PB1, HA and NA

genes before and after each passage was undertaken to identify the

host-adapted changes in the antigenic sites and host specific amino

acids. We showed that virus replication in turkey embryos leads to

mutations in the HA gene of SIVs that are similar to those found in

triple reassortant turkey H3N2 viruses. Glycan-HA interactions in the

respiratory epithelial cells of swine and turkeys was analyzed.

Homology modeling of HA1 proteins indicated a switch in the glycan

topology from the open umbrella structure to the cone form after

passaging the viruses in turkey embryos. Our results suggest that

turkey embryos could serve as an alternative model to study virus

evolution and interspecies transmission of SIVs.

___________________________________________________

How many labs, apart from this American Lab, have been tinkering

around with bird/human/swine combination viruses like this? Might

this be some " oops " errr... um... " accidental " release? Sort of

like

<http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html>the

Barker incident? Or ....what?

In the meantime, the media, instead of asking real questions, goes

straight for the emotional jugular. Take people's mind off the

recession/depression??? Ramp up fear, so that everyone's immune

system is so stressed that it crashes out, making them more

susceptible to any disease?

The " experts " are saying that this might fizzle out into a hugely big

yawn, but my gut doesn't tell me that, yet....

If it does fizzle out, will anyone ask why it is, that deaths only

hit in Mexico, with viruses that didn't even orginate there? Are we

being told the truth about how many deaths in Mexico? Is Mexico

doing a " China " to protect their tourism, and shot economy? Is there

more to this than is being told?

The medical profession in this country as reported by the

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Zealand Herald, have attempted to stop the media giving the drama the

full monty, which is good in one respect, but highly unusual, since

New Zealand doctors don't like to miss an opportunity to persuade

people to believe the worst, and get a needle. If they're being

honest, good on them:

Dr s reiterated cases of influenza A on flight NZ5 had not been confirmed.

" At this stage there's nothing about NZ5 that makes it any different

to any other group of people coming back from the US and Mexico,

because we don't have confirmed cases of influenza A on that flight. "

Dr s said he was happy with the way the suspected swine flu

cases had been handled.

" Until late yesterday afternoon we didn't even know for sure these

people had influenza.

" What they had was mild upper respiratory infection, so it could just

have easily been a cold, " he said.

" It could turn out to be one of the many other forms of influenza A. "

Dr s said health officials had been reacting to information as

it became available.

He said that only a small group of people would have had contact with

the students and of the students themselves, very few were feeling unwell.

He said New Zealand was in quite a different situation to Mexico

where there were potentially many infections but only a small number

of tests for the virus had been carried out.

" The great, great majority of potential cases in Mexico still haven't

been confirmed as linked to this particular swine flu, " he said.

" It's still early days in terms of what we know but there's no

indication it's any more infectious than any other strain of influenza. "

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a real yawn.

Or is it a mirage? Who knows?

There's part of me that says that the official laisse-faire attitude,

might turn out to be wrong. I felt from the start, that the Bird Flu

was simply a cash cow... but this time... something is niggling in my

instincts, starting with the " origin " of this very suspiciously

unnatural mixture of viruses.

Lots of other questions percolate ... just a few are.... why

now? Coincidence? Why... just after the USA elections?

Coincidence? Why just after so many little people have had their

livelihoods fleeced by banks? Coincidence???

There are also a whole lot of medical " coincidences " which I've not

mentioned here, that also don't add up. So I will wait, and watch,

and think. And maybe blog some more...

But ... before you shut your eyes completely on this blog..., do read

<http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller25.html>this. It could be

very very important....

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