A few weeks ago I was urged in the spirit to look up a 'virus' outbreak. I ignored it. The nudging in my spirit became more profound that I could no longer ignore it. I began researching any known infectious virus outbreaks. I came across the Hand, Foot and Mouth Virus (HFMV) that has been spreading in China. I posted several articles to draw attention to this disease that China has not yet been able to quarantined and there is no vaccine. The U.S. media has remained silent about this contagion.
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I just looked up recent news and found the following update from
China View News:
JINAN, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-two children died from hand-foot-mouth disease as of Sunday in eastern China's Shandong Province, the provincial health administration announced Tuesday.
The populous province has reported 29,227 cases of the contagious disease, 826 of which were severe, local health authorities said. So far, 23,161 have recovered.
Hospitals in the province were ordered to reserve enough beds and other resources to prepare for any massive outbreak, and public awareness campaigns have been mounted.
The disease killed 50 children nationwide this year as of April 7, the Ministry of Health said earlier.
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Now call me crazy, but wouldn't you agree that this disease is more a cause for concern that the H1N1 'swine flu' that has only reportedly killed 7 people in Mexico?! The HFMV has a 7 day incubation period before symptons start showing and there is no vaccine! As soon as the media began reporting on the 'swine flu', my immediate reaction was "I'm not buying it. Something smells fishy. This story feels rotten to the core." So I began to research the source, the root cause.
[Side note: There is so much mis-information being funneled by way of the media that it is imperative we do our own research. This advise is for our own good.]
It was interesting to find out that this virus is man-made. It's a combination of four known virus strains. This is odd. This is not a natural born contagion. The more I researched, the more I felt like I was living in an 'X-files' espisode or 'Fringe' espisode. The information I discovered started to become surreal I had to step away so that I could piece it all together.
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Here is an example of what I'm describing from
AFP:
PARIS Apr 28 (AFP) — The top agency for health in farm animals on Monday said Mexico's outbreak of deadly influenza was unleashed by a pathogen mixed from bird, human and hog viruses and branded the term "swine flu" as wrong and harmful to pig farmers.
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said the pathogen was "not a classic human virus... but a virus which includes [in] its characteristics swine, avian and human virus components."
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore, it is not justified to name this disease swine influenza," the Paris-based OIE said in a statement.
In an interview with AFP, OIE Director General Bernard Vallat described the virus as a "cocktail" of four different strains.
"The background of these strains has been reconstituted," he said.
"The avian strain is of American origin, and of the two swine strains, one is American origin and the other appears to be Asian. The human strain is American."
He added: "There is no proof that this virus, currently circulating among humans, really is of animal origin. There is no element to support this."
The OIE noted that past epidemics of human influenza epidemics with animal origin had been named after their geographical origin, such as Spanish flu or Asian flu.
"It would be logical to call this disease 'North American influenza'," it suggested.
Vallat said that "no-one, so far" had been able to show how or where the novel strain of virus had brewed.
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Still don't believe me? Here is an excerpt I have taken from a recent CDC press briefing transcript:
"Preliminary testing of viruses from the 1st 2 patients shows that they are very similar. Additional testing is ongoing with the newer isolates. We know so far that the viruses contain genetic pieces from 4 different virus sources. This is unusual. The 1st is our North American swine influenza viruses. North American avian influenza viruses, human influenza viruses, and swine influenza viruses found in Asia and Europe. That particular genetic combination of swine influenza virus segments has not been recognized before in the US or elsewhere."
CDC Research: How many people die from flu each year in the United States?
In 2009, CDC published additional estimates of flu-related deaths comparing different methods, including the methods used in the 2003 JAMA study. The seasons studied included the 1993-94 through the 2002-03 flu seasons [9]. Results from this study showed that during this time period, 36,171 flu-related deaths occurred per year, on average.
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