Drudge: Obama Greeted in Mexico by Man who died days later of flu symptoms

Drudge Report ^ | 04.25.2009 | Drudge

[HiTech RedNeck]

That raises the question of why would Obama consent to meet a small time flu sufferer in Mexico?

[perchprism]

24 hours from symptoms to death is usually a cytokine storm. Ironically it is caused by a too-healthy immune response.

[silverleaf]

the Secstate was also in Mexico in recent weeks, for longer than the TOTUS

[presently no screen name]

pork train...

Reminds me of his comment regarding Sarah. Does the pig where lipstick?

[silverleaf]

RIP poor man- wonder how he was exposed? And in the company of all those high rollers.

God Help Mexico - all those flu sufferer numbers are someone’s loved one

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

To say it’s pig flu, bird flu and 2 kinds of human flu and therefore genetically engineered is possible but first of all not inevitable and second of all not even likely. The fact is that these things could happen naturally presumably by two strains infecting the same (probably) animal host and exchanging genetic material au naturel.

Secondly if I’m a terrorist I’m probably going to go with something a bit more conventional to do my bio-terrorism and I probably don’t have the resources to do all that influenza DNA mixing and matching.

All these things are probabilities not certainties - still my money is not on bio-terrorism.

[KLT]

Yeah you're right certainly are alot of PESTS in office. They are making us all sick in more ways then one.

Kinda wonder why our own medical agencies aren't taking steps to control this epidemic...WHO, the useless and ignorant World Health Organization keeps issuing stupid statements. Is this supposed to rush socialized med care? Hmmmmmmmmm.

[reader25]

One wonders if Obama took the virus with him to Mexico.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&um=1&ned=es_us&hl=es&q=Felipe+Sol%C3%ADs&ncl=dxZfB6upRQzutFM&cf=all

[Huskr4Bush]

Does anyone remember what happened in the Countries that had the SARS epidemic? Hoof and Mouth diseases?

They had to eradicate millions of affected livestock/poultry. This hurt alot of the Farmers who’s livelihood depended on their by-products (sp?)...

Now the swine virus can be transmitted from Pigs-Humans-Pigs. Guess who’s going to be affected by this if they have to start eradicating the Pig herds?

Yep, Thousand(s) of Pig Farmers.

The CDC better be checking Obama and whoever went down to Mexico with him because they probably have spread this stuff all over the US.

[Huskr4Bush]

I meant to add more.

I have Friends, Family and In-Laws that (have) raise(d) pigs here in the Midwest.

Sorry...I’m not forgetting about the other aspect of this but I’m also a little nervous when people are also coming down with this Flu and what could happen if they can’t get it under control.

[Polybius]

Never heard of a flu virus that kills in 24 hours.

The "Spanish flu" of the 1918 Pandemic could kill that rapidly. Fifty million people died.

Some victims died within hours of their first symptoms. Others succumbed after a few days; their lungs filled with fluid and they suffocated to death.

[Polybius]

On another thread, a Mexican doctor told BBC that two of his intern colleagues in the hospital where he works have died.

A friend in Chile says that Chilean authorities are restricting the arrival of Mexicans into the countrty. If you are Mexicam your temperature is taken and, if it's not normal, you are then denied entry.

I checked it out. She was correct.

Central American countries were on alert for signs of the flu spreading there and Chile said it was checking travelers arriving from Mexico and the United States. Colombia and Peru tightened safety checks at their airports.

[Revolting cat!]

Is it too late to panic?

[Cicero]

One of my daughters and her husband have a pair of female pigs that they just bred, hoping to raise some young.

I honestly think the people in the CDC are a mixed lot. Some of them are very good—I know one person fairly high up whom we see in the summer—but it IS a federal bureaucracy, and they answer to the politicians and the political donors.

They are just as likely to let ten million Mexicans through the door one minute, and then start slaughtering all the pigs the next minute. “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.”

[Polybius]

Is it too late to panic?

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Polybius can't answer your FR post at the present time. He has abruptly left for a 6 month solo sailing cruise.

[Tublecane]

“Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported.”

Right-wing assassination plot?

[Tublecane]

“If they rename it The Black Death...”

Or the Half-Black Death.

[Bean Counter]

This could be a good sign....what if the Mexicans are allergic to Obamunism??

Would a massive, fatal, Obamunism allergy outbreak among Mexican Nationals not potentially scare the illegals back across the border??

Could this not be the long awaited “stimulus” to the US job market, however inadvertent??

Could this not also be seen as a potential solution to the long running Mexican drug wars??

I think we need to encourage The One to fly back down to Mexico City to comfort a few people, and see if he sets off another wave of deadly allergic reactions. If he does, we need to get him to Pakistan as fast as possible to see if it still works there...

[RummyChick]

I think they have established it can go human to human. Can you be a silent carrier..Good lord, how many people did Obama travel with and where did they go after that?

I am not kidding..I am stocking up on at least 30 days of food immediately...and work on getting it to 90 days.

Will water be safe from the tap?