MILLION HIT BY 'PLAGUE WORSE THAN SWINE FLU'

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A DEADLY plague could sweep across Europe, doctors fear, after an outbreak of a virus in Ukraine plunged the country and its neighbours into a state of panic.

A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has called in the World Health Organisation and a team of nine specialists are carrying out tests in Kiev and Lviv to identify the virus. Samples have been sent to London for analysis.

President Yushchenko said: “People are dying. The epidemic is killing doctors. This is absolutely inconceivable in the 21st Century.”

In a TV interview, the President added: “Unlike similar epidemics in other countries, three causes of serious viral infections came together simultaneously in Ukraine – two seasonal flus and the Californian flu

“Virologists conclude that this combination of infections may produce an even more aggressive new virus as a result of mutation.”

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been touring hospitals where victims are being treated and presidential elections in January could be cancelled .

Four men and one woman have died from the flu in Lviv, said emergency hospital chief doctor Myron Borysevych. Two of the dead patients were in the 22-35 age group, with two others over 60. He diagnosed the disease as viral pneumonia.

“We have sent the analyses to Kiev. We don’t believe it’s H1N1 swine flu. Neither do we know what kind of pneumonia it is.”

Universities, schools and kindergartens have been closed, public meetings have been banned and theatres shut. Last week several border crossings in the country were also closed.

Last night reports emerged of profiteering over face masks, which have sold out since the outbreak. There are also incidents of anti-virus medication being sold for exorbitant prices. A spokesman for the World Health Organisation said: “We do not have a time scale for the results of the tests in London, although some preliminary results have been obtained. I cannot tell you what they are.

“We did not have enough of the virus samples so we will have to grow some more before we can come to a conclusive decision about its nature.”

Neighbouring Poland has called on the EU to take action, fearing the mystery virus may spread westwards.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has written to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and the Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, who holds the EU presidency, saying: “The character of this threat demands that rapid action be undertaken at the European Union level.”

Russia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania, countries that border Ukraine, have already launched health checks on Ukrainians entering their territory.

Slovakia has closed two of five border crossings.

A doctor in Western Ukraine who did not want to be named, said:” We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal.

“They look like they have been burned. It’s terrifying.”

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/140492...than-swine-flu-

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This is interesting:

On November 7, healthfreedomalliance.org updated the totals to "871,037 Influenza/ARI (acute respiratory infection) cases, 39,603 hospitalized, and 135 deaths, and asked if Baxter released a bioweapon in Ukraine, saying "Evidence appears to suggest" it. It cited a February 24 bloomberg.com report that "Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error (containing) contaminated (virus) samples...."

The problem was discovered when inoculated ferrets in a Czech lab died. Austrian health minister, Sigrid Rosenberger, confirmed that Baxter supplied batches "infected with a bird flu virus." Company spokesperson, Christopher Bona, blamed "human error." Others were skeptical, including Austrian journalist Jane Burgermeister.

On June 10, she filed sweeping criminal charges with the FBI in addition to earlier April 8 ones with the Vienna State Prosecutor's Office against Baxter AG, Baxter International and Avir Green Hill Biotechnology AG, "for manufacturing, disseminating, and releasing a biological weapon of mass destruction on Austrian soil between December 2008 and February 2009 with the intention of causing a global bird flu pandemic virus and of intending to profit from that same pandemic in an act that violates laws on international organised crime and genocide."

Baxter operates Biosafety Level 3 (BLS-3) labs that take strict precautions to assure against accidental H3N2 (human influenza) and H5N1 (bird flu) co-mingling contamination. Letting it happen suggests something more nefarious than an accident.

BLS-3 personnel are trained in handling pathogenic and potentially lethal agents and are supervised by competent, experienced scientists. In addition, these labs have specially engineered design features for added safety.

By combining H3N2 and H5N1 viruses, "Baxter produced a highly dangerous biological weapon with a 63 per cent mortality rate. The H5N1 virus is restricted in its human-to-human transmissibility, especially because it is less airborne."

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Did Baxter Release a Bioweapon in Ukraine?

Baxter has a facility in Ukraine. Given the above evidence, it may be behind the current outbreak. A November 1 David Rothscum infowars.com article headlined: "Has Baxter International released a biological weapon," in citing an earlier Huffington Post report on a man named Joseph Moshe, a Mossad biological warfare expert. True or not, he warned, on an August radio program, about "a biological weapon....being made by Baxter International('s Ukraine facility) that would be spread through vaccine and would cause a plague upon its release." Having reported this two months before the outbreak lends credence to his story.

In August, Ukraine was almost influenza free. On October 30, earthtimes.org said only two cases of Swine Flu had been reported. According to fto.co.za, on March 26, reports were that "thousands of Ukrainians refused" to be vaccinated, because of fears about "diphtheria, mumps, polio, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, (and) whooping cough among others. Health officials said (this) could lead to disease outbreaks...." Perhaps unleashing a "biological weapon" is how to convince them and millions elsewhere.

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A triple from me.

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Very worrying indeed.

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Baxter is a Chicago based company right? (I think I have a relative who works there...or did)

Edited November 16, 2009 by Sousuke

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Rumor has it that Matt Drudge gets his biggest story scoops from Lone Ranger! Maybe Lone can call it the FudgeReport!

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Baxter is a Chicago based company right? (I think I have a relative who works there...or did)

Yes their home office is up in Deerfield. Not too far away from Abbott labs.

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Holy Crow!

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Rumor has it that Matt Drudge gets his biggest story scoops from Lone Ranger! Maybe Lone can call it the FudgeReport!

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So, how are things going over at Baxter, these days?

Edited November 16, 2009 by Lone Ranger

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Rumor has it that Matt Drudge gets his biggest story scoops from Lone Ranger! Maybe Lone can call it the FudgeReport!

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So, how are things going over at Baxter, these days?

Shhhh, I'm posting again from my desk between inventing new biopharmaceuticals for gullible consumers to purchase.

What's the next headline fresh off the press?

How about, "Butchered Man Used for Kebabs"

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Rumor has it that Matt Drudge gets his biggest story scoops from Lone Ranger! Maybe Lone can call it the FudgeReport!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So, how are things going over at Baxter, these days?

Shhhh, I'm posting again from my desk between inventing new biopharmaceuticals for gullible consumers to purchase.

What's the next headline fresh off the press?

How about, "Butchered Man Used for Kebabs"

I thought someone already posted that.

Easy now. I am close to getting my first big heart.

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Rumor has it that Matt Drudge gets his biggest story scoops from Lone Ranger! Maybe Lone can call it the FudgeReport!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So, how are things going over at Baxter, these days?

Shhhh, I'm posting again from my desk between inventing new biopharmaceuticals for gullible consumers to purchase.

What's the next headline fresh off the press?

How about, "Butchered Man Used for Kebabs"

I thought someone already posted that.

Easy now. I am close to getting my first big heart.

Listen, I'm not you, so I can't be expected to dig up the latest and greatest FudgeReport Headlines.

OK, let's go for something REALLY hot and scandalous: CNN reporter detained in Shanghai over Obama-Mao T-shirt

EDIT: Here is a free $1000 dollar idea: Get your hand on 1000 of these T-shirts tonight, and make a Bundle on Ebay Tmrw!

Edited November 16, 2009 by Hopp