Swine Flu Virus A (H3N2) May Be Spreading Between People


First Posted: 01/04/12 03:40 PM ET Updated: 01/05/12 06:57 AM ET

A new strain of the swine flu virus called A(H3N2) may now be spreading through person-to-person contact, the Public Health Agency of Canada says.


The announcement comes after a number of warnings concerning the H3N2 virus by U.S. authorities in recent months.


The virus is a variant of the swine flu virus H3N2.


Though it usually infects pigs, the A(H3N2) virus has infected 12 people in the U.S. since July 2011, according to the U.S. Centre of Disease Control and Prevention. Most cases have been mild respiratory illnesses, though three people with underlying conditions were hospitalized and recovered.


While in earlier cases the virus had spread from pigs to humans, the most recent cases were spread through limited person-to-person contact, according to PHAC. No cases of the virus have been reported in Canada.


PHAC said it is monitoring the situation closely and increasing its surveillance.


It is also urging Canadians to get the flu shot and to practice proper sneezing and coughing etiquette, as well as frequent hand washing to prevent the spread of the virus.


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Donna Meness
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Donna Meness
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10:04 PM on 01/05/2012
US government gives Baxter, Novartis legal immunity in advance for any injury and death caused by H1N1 vaccine ,,,,

http://wakenews.net/DOCUMENTS_AGAINST_WHO_AND_HHS_FORCED_VACCINATION__A_H1N1__MEXICAN_FLU__ON__AMERICAN_PEOPLE__AND_TEMPLATE_FOR_FILING_IN_OTHER_COUNTRIES_1_.pdf
Donna Meness
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09:50 PM on 01/05/2012
Jane Bürgermeister's evidence has been supported by Wayne Madsen, a former US Naval Intelligence officer and now an investigative journalist. He said that a top United Nations scientist concluded that the H1N1 swine flu virus has certain transmission 'vectors' that suggest the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon. The UN expert believed that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are all biological warfare agents.

Madsen writes:

'Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), A-H1N1 has gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains and a segment from Eurasian swine flu.'

Wayne Madsen also says that his sources confirm that the Centers for Disease Control and the US army recovered the body of an Inuit woman who died in 1918 in Brevig Mission, Alaska, from an outbreak of Spanish flu that killed 100 million people worldwide in 18 months.

Madsen was told that genetic material from the corpse provided the basis for the development of the H5N1 avian, or 'bird flu', strain at the US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. This lab was the origin of the anthrax attacks on US Congress and media targets shortly after September 11th in 2001.
Donna Meness
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09:48 PM on 01/05/2012
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/documents/vaccines/Baxter%20Vaccine%20Patent%20Application.pdf
Donna Meness
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09:43 PM on 01/05/2012
We are told that the drug companies and the World Health Organisation have been working at fever pitch to develop a vaccine for the 'new' swine flu strain known as H1N1, but ... wait for it ... Baxter International filed a patent for the H1N1 vaccine on August 28th 2008.

Baxter Vaccine Patent Application US 2009/0060950 A1says:

'... In particular preferred embodiments the composition or vaccine comprises more than one antigen ... such as influenza A and influenza B in particular selected from of one or more of the human H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, H5N1, H7N7, H1N2, H9N2, H7N2, H7N3, H10N7 subtypes, of the pig flu H1N1, H1N2, H3N1 and H3N2 subtypes, of the dog or horse flu H7N7, H3N8 subtypes or of the avian H5N1, H7N2, H1N7, H7N3, H13N6, H5N9, H11N6, H3N8, H9N2, H5N2, H4N8, H10N7, H2N2, H8N4, H14N5, H6N5, H12N5 subtypes.'

The patent was published in March 2009, a month before the virus was released in Mexico in April, but it was filed seven months before this 'new strain' was officially known about. It is the most blatant set-up you could ever see.
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05:10 PM on 01/05/2012
The virus is comming, the virus is comming everybody run for you lives. OMG what next? The same format over and over. First the economy sucks and we can't do anything about it. We created something that is so dark that dark matter can' even come close to it. At least with the virus comming we have something to look forvard to. LMAO
Donna Meness
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10:17 PM on 01/05/2012
The recent CBS Investigative Report, published on October 21, is one example. After the CDC refused to honor CBS’s Freedom of Information request to receive flu infection data for each individual state, the network performed independent outreach to all fifty states to get their statistics. Their report contradicts dramatically the CDC’s public relations blitz. For example, in California, among the approximate 13,000 flu-like cases, 86 percent tested negative for any flu strain. In Florida, out of 8,853 cases, 83 percent were negative. In Georgia and Alaska, only 2.4 percent and 1 percent respectively tested positive for flu virus among all reported flu-like cases. If the infectious-rate ratios obtained by CBS are accurate, the CDC’s figures are significantly reduced and agree with earlier predictions that the H1N1 virus will be simply an unwelcomed annoyance. So we are in the midst of an enormous medical hoax, a design and purpose that has yet to unfold completely, that will nevertheless reap huge revenues for the vaccine industrial complex.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-launches-deceptive-swine-flu-propaganda-blitz/
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12:27 AM on 01/06/2012
Hi Donna. I have a feeling that yes it is all money driven, they are not giving these shots out for free. How much is the true cost? If it get out that 83% vere placebos we will be in trouble. I realize that the threat is out there but to inoculate all 50 states that must be good organization. Personaly I have no idea where it comes from but when the n1h1 was around we all joked "what do you think it will be next year N2H3" and here it is again full circle. Thanks for writing.
04:40 PM on 01/05/2012
Rumor has it that the first case in the National Capital has been discovered in the Wellington St area.
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CarlyQ
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01:24 PM on 01/05/2012
Eventually they'll get it right and make one deadly and contagious enough to send everyone in a panic to the flu clinic for their vaccine.
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12:39 PM on 01/05/2012
... And the scaremongering begins... again. Yawn!
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NoraHuffposter
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10:00 AM on 01/05/2012
No one is buying these scare tactics. Just give the pharm. companies money directly so they stop bothering us and polluting our media with them.
09:53 AM on 01/05/2012
here we go. every couple of years...I wonder what scare tactics they will use this time.
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montezaro
09:52 AM on 01/05/2012
Be afraid, be very afraid!!! Otherwise pharma won't make billions!!!
09:03 AM on 01/05/2012
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!
08:31 AM on 01/05/2012
Be afraid so the government can control you.
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Norma Ward
07:30 AM on 01/05/2012
Here is an article that outlines just how ineffective the public vaccination campaign for the dreaded H1N1 strain was back in 2009 - 2010:

http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2010/06/h1n1-great-pandemic-part-2.html

What makes us think that we can do any better this time out?
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Joshua MG
08:54 AM on 01/05/2012
Money.
They, government officials and pharmaceutical tycoons, make TONS of money off this fear-mongering.
Thus, it will be more effective. For their bank accounts.
Donna Meness
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09:44 PM on 01/05/2012
Margaret Chan, the WHO Director General, declared a swine flu pandemic when there wasn't one so these emergency powers would be activated and this lackey of the Rothschild-Rockefeller cabal is going to be recommending compulsory vaccination. She's virtually done it already. The WHO advisory board on vaccination policy includes executives from ... Baxter, Novartis, GSK and Sanofi Pasteur.
Exactly..

Jane Bürgermeister's letter to Margaret Chan

http://www.drcarley.com/pdf/Jane%27s_Criminal_Indictment_to_WHO.pdf