Deadly Flu Virus Made In A Lab
Written by Jamie Stowe | Saturday, 27 February 2010 | There is 1 comment
the H1N1 swine flu might mutate slightly and become more dangerous
Just how dangerous influenza viruses can be has been shown by a research project which involved the mixing of very dangerous bird influenza viruses with ordinary more contagious influenza viruses. The researchers led by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka from the University of Wisconsin-Madison mixed up the H5N1 deadly bird flu virus strain with the more commonly known H3N2 strain and produced three terrifyingly virulent and powerful new strains.
Influenza viruses are always changing and mutating and the H1N1 swine flu is evidence of this and the fact that it is now on the wane means that it is likely that other influenza strains will come forward to replace it. Some experts say that the H1N1 swine flu might mutate slightly and become more dangerous on its own or it could even link up with another flu strain and work in tandem with it. The H5N1 bird flu virus is still around despite having been largely forgotten by the media since the arrival of swine flu, nevertheless bird flu has killed almost 300 people since it appeared in 2003 which represents around 60 percent of those infected by it.
Without trying to cause panic the World Health Organization is aware that had the swine flu virus killed 60 percent of those that it infected millions of people would now be dead and the world would have been brought to a standstill. Despite all the research done with flu viruses over the last few years researchers cannot pinpoint exactly how they change and are not aware of all the influences that cause the virus mutations.
Professor Kawaoka's research which was done by swapping genes from individual flu viruses generated 254 completely different new influenza virus strains which showed that it could be possible to make a flu virus strain with H5N1 deadly properties and H3N2 contagious properties. The research which was done using mice in a laboratory resulted in a whole range of different viruses of different properties.
The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and highlights the importance of the World Health Organisation sponsoring surveillance programs to monitor any changes in flu viruses around the world.
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Dr David Hill said:
Drugs are not the answer and a great deal of people profited out of their push for vaccines Ab Osterhaus, Declan Butler and Nature Magazine are all culpable in wanting the drug companies to sell billions of pounds worth of worthless swine flu/bird flu drugs. The European Union (EU) are currently investigating the motives behind the vast purchase of these drugs. They are all friends of the large pharmaceuticals. What they did not want to see was the alternative strategy to emerge of addressing the global threat at source. For the only way to stop bird flu/Swine flu et al indefinitely is to address the problem at source and never let it happen in the first place. It is the only way. http://avian-influenza.cirad.fr/content/download/1931/11789/file/Kennedy-F-Shortridge.pdf (your computer may prevent this download but I can assure you that it is perfectly safe to do so) http://distributedresearch.net/blog/tag/world-innovation-foundation Otherwise it will one day come back with a vengeance and wipe out a quarter of humanity. The Spanish Flu that killed up to 100 million (a Swine flu variant) will then be seen as the minor event in the world’s history of global pandemics. Funny how money always rises above human life itself !
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