Epidemic, Pandemic, or Plan?

Mexican Doctor: Real Figure Is 200 Dead, Situation Out Of Control

Last Sunday there were a number of stories in the news as always, even on slow news Sundays there is always something to report. The stories covered a wide variety of crisis's and other looming dangers and scandals, but no mention of a possible influenza pandemic just around the corner that threatens us all in less than a week.

Yet by mid week, we were beginning to see sudden and dramatic reports of a new flu virus literally flooding Mexico and coming across our own border. In the past two days alone, the reports have gone from tragic to potentially life changing, yet it is a report that was printed today, that I find most disturbing.

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

That's right. According to a doctor on the scene in Mexico? This virus killed two of his colleagues (interns which means young men) in a space of less than six days of contracting it. We haven't even been aware of this virus for six days in America and already the reality of its potential lethality is beginning to seep out and reach the rest of the world.

In today's world of jet travel? This virus has already made it's way around the world. So there is no need of others sitting back and waiting and watching to learn from what happens here in America. And apparently there are no vaccines available to combat it in advance. And even if there were, it takes weeks for the human body to create antibodies after receiving a vaccine.

Swine Flu Likely Spread To New Zealand

I don't think that you can possibly get farther removed from Mexico, than to be in New Zealand, but the virus has already found its way there, arriving via returning students who had recently visited Mexico. Therefore, I am confident in believing that the virus has already reached all of the other populated areas and continents of the world as well.

What remains to be seen and determined IMO, is where did this beast microbe come from. Was it spawned spontaneously in nature? A simple mutation of nature? Or is there possibly another answer that people will not want to openly discuss.

The virus is supposedly a combination of three viruses. Human influenza, swine influenza and avian influenza. The flu pandemic of 1918 involved a combined paring of swine and avian influenza. That one killed over six million people globally. So what is the added danger of a virus when a third element is combined with an already known evil paring.

And again, where did this hell's creation come from? A little research reveals that in 1976 a similar flu virus to the 1918 pandemic appeared at Fort Dix NJ and killed a number of soldiers there. Why Fort Dix?

And then there is this....Army: 3 vials of virus samples missing from Maryland facility

And no one knows when these vials came up missing, but they do know this.....

The vials contained samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, a virus that sickens horses and can be spread to humans by mosquitoes. In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

That is certainly some discomforting information.

Meanwhile, we must wait and see what tomorrow brings. Will this thing grow exponentially and globally and threaten us all? I tend to believe that by this time next week? We may be seeing the global pandemic that many have feared and an amoral media has been hoping for, ever since they learned of the possibility and probability of one arising was possible.

And the other question that will eventually be asked, "is this a contemporary reality of an Andromeda strain scenario of biological dabbling gone wrong?

I sincerely hope this all fades away quickly, but I am not optimistic about the potential of that happening. I believe that some form of Genie has escaped the bottle and is loosed upon the world. All that remains to be determined is the lethality, and who was responsible. Nature or man.