Origins Of The Swine Flu Virus

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Chrbqqmy of AL 3:03AM July 14, 2009

are you serious our government has not been doing there job in inspecting our food i think its an outrage that many people has died from this virus and so many people young and old has had to suffer from this pandemic its an outrage an outrage i tell you!

silver washington of WI 10:09AM July 07, 2009

IN these days we can do anything, because people minds are also getting mutating like viruses.But there is no speed up in thinking as viral replication.If thinking is in high,means in speed we can do anything.

chiranjeevi of IN 6:12AM June 28, 2009

I recently saw the movie "Fast Food Nation," based on the book by the same name. It's a great dramatization of the ugly underside of the meat industry. While it deals specifically with cows rather than pigs, it strongly inplicates the way the meat industry puts the concern for profits before concern for health and wellbeing. The DVD has a some interesting special features, including a series of animated film shorts called "The Meatrix." These are comical parodies of The Matrix that aim to educate folks about the many exploitative and unsanitary practices of the meat industry. One point made in these short films was that in cramming animals together tighter than is natural for them, the industry subjects them to greater exposure to disease, and this necessitates that large doses of antibiotics be given to the amimals regularly, which has the byproduct of creating resistant strians of disease. Seems pretty clear that H1N1 is a byproduct of these types of practices.

gloriamundi of RI 8:44PM June 12, 2009

These days there are millions of people that travel by airplanes everyday. Not to mention much of our food is grown and transported here from other countries. You probably eat something everyday that came from some other country and not even realize it. Under these conditions a contagious airborne virus could spread rapidly.
You also have to take into account that in the Southern Hemisphere it is winter now. In Australia and South America the flu season just started.

Joe of NY 6:31PM June 12, 2009

H1N1 is the designation for the flu strain that killed millions of people in the pandemic of 1918. A biologist with the CDC has been experimenting with the H1N1 DNA he collected from samples of the 1918 pandemic. He apparently was rebuiliding the strain to study ways to deal with the "Bird Flu" that has been a concern to the Medical Community and the WHO. My scource is from a NOVA program I watched this past winter.
I was unaware that the H1N1 strain had been active in Pigs these past several years, I hope there is no connection between the current H1N1 outbreak and the CDC experiment.
Does anyone have more/other information?
Corporate greed is a huge problem today, large corporate farms have destroyed our food and seeds for planting, pig and cattle feedlots produce huge amounts of waste that pollutes our water and air, at the expense of all peoples in all countries, this is a threat of huge proportions, everyone should look into it and contact thier Government, demanding greed be put in its place. Greed has ruined the economy in the world, is our food and health next.(I'm betting the gready bastards could care less.)

Buff Oon of CO 5:26PM June 12, 2009

It does not make sense to me that this supposedly came from Mexico, and now its all over the world. If it is by contact between humans, I cant see the link in such a short time to places like Australia. I guess one person flew to Australia and now thousands of people there have it? Only if it lies dormant and spreads before victims realize they have it might be a good excuse, otherwise I say it needed some help. AND if it has been around as long as stated, how come nobody spread it around last year or the year before? Thats nonsense as much as I think this virus is falling from the sky!

Glenn DelConte of GA 5:24PM June 12, 2009

It does not make sense to me that this supposedly came from Mexico, and now its all over the world. If it is by contact between humans, I cant see the link in such a short time to place like Autralia. Only if it lies dormant and spreads before victims realize they have it might be a good excuse, otherwise I say it needed some help. AND if it has been around as long as stated, how come nobody spread it around last year or the year before? Thats nonsense as much as I think this virus is falling from the sky!

Glenn of GA 5:21PM June 12, 2009

There is also a pork factory in Virginia. Paula Dean should visit this facility and tell us how nice it is. Almost a million hogs are raised here each year in the most deplorable conditions imaginable. Any time you place this many animals in such confined area you can expect disease to run rampant, especially respiratory diseases. If you raised your dog in such conditions you would probably be arrested.

Jack from a south Georgia dairy farm of VA 5:12PM June 12, 2009

Raise all the pork you can in these factory farms ..not like the old family farmers and it is just waiting for this flu to come out. Think about it ..just in this one so called farm(Mexico,Smithfield Corp.) there are 50000 plus sows in one spot and they have pigs twice or two and half times a year and we have some million or more pigs here with huge,huge waste going out from these confinments. A good mix for disease of who knows what. These corporate factory pig farms are so secretive that anything goes to push the profit margin to the max. Pigs never see the outside of the steel and concrete cages. It is a sin all by itself much less the greed by these pricks.. we should demand better enviorment for pigs along with better conditons were are pork and food is raised.
William from Iowa and farmer too :-).

William Glassmaker of IA 4:40PM June 12, 2009