Is the swine flu a genetically modified virus released on purpose?

Oi you people need to get a lesson on how infectious disease works,

pig carries virus aka a vector... people living in close proximity to pigs pick up virus and becomes the new host and as people come into contact with one another the virus gets passed along. How did people in 3 unrelated countries get it, well they came into contact with the virus... its pretty simple and unfortunately pandemics are a natural occurrence...also flu viruses mutate all the time, the flu vaccine given each years is always based on the previous years strain which is usually not the same as the strain going around...

There are three possibilities-

A biologically engineered virus for a terrorist attack.

A biologically engineered virus for population maintenance.

A naturally occurring phenomena.

We mustn't panic because of the media's hysteria, the only reason there have been so many deaths in Mexico is because of bad health care (Not meant to offend anybody) and there has only been one confirmed death caused by Swine Influenza in the United States.

This could be a biologically engineered virus created by a radical terrorist group such as Al-Qaeda to attack innocent U.S. citizens, knowing that the United States borders are more protected than Mexico's, the virus could have easily been transmitted to the Mexican people and so forth.

Viruses have been known to "jump" and transmit genes to one another creating somewhat of a hybrid virus. This MAY be the case with the Swine flu, being that it is a hybrid of The Avian flu, the Swine Flu, and the seasonal Human flu (sometimes there isn't some grand scheme to it all) this is what happened with the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic but the Avian Influenza Virus jumped DIRECTLY to humans.

The swine flu could have been created to maintain increasing populations in Mexico and may have accidentally been transmitted to American tourists who eventually spread the virus to the United States.

The bottom line, no matter what the cause, don't worry so much about it because the majority of the deaths were caused by bad health care, not the flu itself.

Hoped I was of some help.

Also by the way, THE VIRUS IS NOT AIRBORNE, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SPREADING IT THROUGH TRAVEL AND THEN DIRECT CONTACT.

I think it is a possibility but I don't believe it has much to do with population. If you think about it what better time to release a virus while the world is in financial turmoil? The swine flu has the possibility of closing down shops, schools, restaurants and anything else in that kind of social category in which the virus can be spread. FINANCIAL CRISIS + SWINE FLU VIRUS = AN EVEN WORSE SITUATION! This can further disadvantage less advance countries giving a greater advantage to stronger countries. I'm not going to point to any particular Government but I've got theories! It is also to put the world in a state of fear and maybe has something to do with putting a New World Order in place.

Hey there!

I'm from Mexico and I have seen up close all this madness about the swine flu. Let me tell you something: this is all a fraud.

Yes, there is a virus of a different type of flu out there but it is not mortal. It is just like any other flu.

Statistically around 170 people (aged from 25 to 50) die every month for flu complications in Mexico. That is because of poor conditions, and lack of proper health services.

So far 160 people have died of flu in Mexico since this whole madness appeared, but only 8 deaths are confirmed to be due to swine flu.

This is not a pandemic situation, not even epidemic!!! 170 PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE DUE TO FLU COMPLICATIONS, SWINE FLU OR NOT!!!

The deaths don't have to do at all with the virus being mortal.

Last year in Mexico MONTHLY 5000 people died of heart deseases, 6000 for diabetes, 3000 for accidents... 500 people were murdered by drug cartels.

Are you telling me the world should consider 160 deaths (ONLY 8 CONFIRMED TO BE DUE TO SWINE FLU) a pandemic situation?? I don't think so.

Please open your eyes!!! All this is a show perpetrated to cause panic.

The WHO will elevate the situation to level 6 and the borders will be closed.

US citizes will be forced to consume national products only because all goods fabricated in Mexico and China will not pass the border.

ALL THIS IS JUST TO BOOST YOUR ECONOMY!!!

I think the virus was engineered and released on purpose, but not to kill people, just to cause panic.

Spanish Flu's genome was sequenced in 2004 after an expedition a few years earlier to find bodies buried in permafrost. This is recorded in Kirsty Duncan's book "Hunting the 1918 Flu". It was found to be Swine Flu. But Science magazine Nature reports

http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v98/n1/full/6800...

"Recently, a team of US scientists resurrected a virus that has since been labelled 'perhaps the most effective bioweapons agent now known' (von Bubnoff, 2005). In 1918, a highly virulent strain of influenza virus killed up to 50 million people worldwide. The virus – later dubbed the Spanish Flu – killed more people than any other disease of similar duration in the history of humankind. Until last year, this virus was extinct, preserved only as small DNA fragments in victims buried in Alaskan permafrost"

So swine flu was extinct except in US Labs (military labs, the same labs where the weaponised Anthrax originated in the 2001 attacks).

Therefore as strange as it may be sound... it does look as the coincidence of swine flu and avain flu spliced with human flu genes does meet the worries of this researcher writing in 2003...

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza...

"An influenza virus "especially one genetically manipulated for increased virulence” would be an attractive weapon for bioterrorists"

It's unlikely, but I wouldn't say impossible.

Just think, the smallpox virus has been extict, as in no one has the virus, so spreading stopped. BUT, the United States is holding a strain of it to use as a weapon in war if the time comes. This is a hard fact.

There is no way to know for sure, but virus' are constantly mutating and taking dna from the dna of other organsisms to bypass the immune systems of their host. Virus' are smart and have caused havok in the past, and could still do so in the future even with our modern sciences and healthcare.

as far as population control goes, I would rule that one out. Because this is not "controlled". They have no way of knowing exactly how many people will become infected, how fast it will spread, how well people avoid it or contract it.. or how many will die from it. If they wanted to reduce the population, they wouldnt do it in a way that could put our healthcare workers in direct danger.. especially with our already huge shortage of healthcare.

With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don’t want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina.

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The swine flu apparently is being traced back to a lady from California, who went to visit oaxaca via mexico on bus. She died from it on 4/13. Also, about 3,000 in veracruz are claiming that they have been having swine flu outbreaks since December, and getting it from a large pig farm that is 50% owned by a US company, but all their pigs and workers tested negative for the swine flu. Anyway, the theory so far is that it originated from asia, and came through the US into mexico. Also, the who has been at level 5 for a while now, i have a cousin who works in mexican government.

The swine flu is just another strain of the flu. It's not killing people left and right; and it's nothing to sweat over. The only people who have to worry are babies, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. I just don't understand why it's being reported as something that is going to cause the end of the world. REDICULOUS.

Originally, that's what I thought too. Then again, I just think everything is some kind of conspiracy. I think it's more down to the fact that humans keep animals in horrible factory farm conditions, which will obviously encourage the spread of viruses, disease, etc. I blame humankind. Pretty much anything bad that happens is our own fault, because we think we rule the world and clearly, we don't. That's good ol' Mother Nature's job, I say.

Also, I did some reasearch on it and found out that it killed 50 million people in 1918-1919, so who knows? Maybe it was purposely made and maybe it wasn't. I'm still very skeptical though, I must admit.

It does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu and which so far only seems to respond to Tamiflu.

According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future. That's without a pandemic outbreak.

More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.

In February 2009, American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.

The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

The contaminated product, which Baxter calls “experimental virus material,” was made at the Orth-Donau research facility. Baxter makes its flu vaccine, including a human H5N1 vaccine (for which a licence is expected shortly) at a facility in the Czech Republic. People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.

While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people. That mixing process, called “reassortment”, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab.

Reassortment is the mixing of the genetic material of two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell. In particular, reassortment occurs among influenza viruses, whose genomes consist of eight distinct segments of RNA. These segments act like mini-chromosomes, and each time a flu virus is assembled, it requires one copy of each segment.

The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in terrible consequences. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak (the 1977 Russian flu) was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.

A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured. The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.

Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.