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H1N1 Theory Reconsiders Origin

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Posted on Jun 24, 2009
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The new theory puts the origin of the swine flu virus in Asia, not Mexico.

A new theory puts the origin of the H1N1 virus not in Mexico, where right-wing anti-immigrant groups want it, but in Asia. Scientists explain that there has been no evidence demonstrating the virus in North American pigs, but plenty of evidence of a “sister virus” circulating in Asia.

The New York Times:

Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human.

But they emphasized that there was no way to prove their theory and only sketchy data underpinning it.

There is no evidence that this new virus, which combines Eurasian and North American genes, has ever circulated in North American pigs, while there is tantalizing evidence that a closely related “sister virus” has circulated in Asia.

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By jhnsn957a, July 23, 2009 at 8:28 pm Link to this comment

The reality may come out in a few years, but for now it is still a well kept secret.  The true origin of the H1N1, and the “swine” influenza viruses since the mid 1980s is the corporations that manufacture the vaccines.  To create the vaccines, they must first culture the virus, and render it inert so that it doesn’t give the vaccinated individuals the full blown virus.  They mostly now can predict which viral strains will be a problem.  This is because while they are culturing the virus, they release it in the populations in a few third world countries where sanitation is not so good, and the virus will spread like wild fire.  The WHO then gets everyone excited about a pandemic, and the profits generate themselves for the companies who have the vaccine ready to go.  They do slip up once in a while, and another flu virus that is naturally occurring infects more people than their engineered virus, but that just helps them appear legitimate.  This flue season fewer than normal numbers of people chose to get the vaccinations, and magically the threat of pandemic is lasting much longer than usual.  They are just trying to keep up the fear to sell their stockpile of vaccine that was made before the virus was released into the human/animal population to be spread.  Look to those who profit from the vaccines, and you will find the source of the flue.

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By Night-Gaunt, June 25, 2009 at 8:18 am Link to this comment

How is that ‘bias’ Jason? Is it because you consider it gratuitous or correct?

They still purport that it is a natural chimera even though they have never seen a four fold virus amalgam like this before. One human, one avian, and two swine influenza genomes in it. Sounds like an episode of “Re-Genesis.” Is it natural or human made? The outcome is that next year it could come back a more dangerous strain and be a massive killer. The Flu of 1918-1919 was like that and this flu is in over 147 countries!

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By Jason!!, June 24, 2009 at 1:36 pm Link to this comment

Inject bias. Ruin article. Fail.

“where right-wing anti-immigrant groups want it”

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