[RedMominBlueState]

Does anyone else thing there is something weird about this whole swine flu phenomenon? What about the fact that Baxter Labs "accidentally" sent vaccine material containing live Avian bird flu and seasonal influenza to labs around the world? Bloomberg reported this last February.Then there was the weird story about the man arrested in California in August who claimed that Baxter's Ukranian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine....

[muawiyah]

Few people have any "natural" immunity to influenza viruses.

We'll check up on this AFTER the stink blows off eh!

[Jeff Chandler]

The Truth is Out There

[goldstategop]

Pneumonic plague? Its a bacteria that is carried by infected fleas on rats. The Black Death in the Middle Ages burned like a wildfire through European society. Almost three fourths of the population was dead before it had run its course. We haven't had a pandemic for the last century.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm giving in to total paranoia here for just a moment --

This feels like an election recount in MN. Coleman won? Recount. Coleman won again? Recount. Really?? Recount it again! Ahhhhhhhh ... Franken won. We can stop.

It seems like disease is cropping up all over the place, and each one will wipe out millions, but then it doesn't -- but then another terrible disease pops up and everyone panics, until it fizzles -- but then ...

Seems like the cycle may repeat until the evil guys in the lab finally get a microbe that really packs a punch.

[/paranoid rant]

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It does seems strange for this to appear suddenly in just the Ukraine. The bioweapon-experiment-gone-bad hypothesis can’t be completely dismissed, offhand.

[BROKKANIC]

In the comments.... "I notice how all the reports of planes spraying over the Ulraine have been ignored!? countless people telephoned the government & tv station asking what were these planes doing spraying just 2 days before the outbreak this is vitally important as BAXTERS have a laboratory near there & it would not be the first time that BAXTERS have deliberately infected people with their virus (which has a US PATENT No.) Have BAXTERS deliberately poisoned the population of the Ukraine? to spread their virus & therefore get more money??? this needs to be investigated at once as a matter of the utmost urgency as BAXTERS are criminal in their handling of this plague virus"

Wow! Just wow!

[DumpsterDiver]

Here is a related thread about this subject:

H1N1 "super flu" plague in Ukraine sparks concern, conspiracy theories about origins
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387422/posts

[freedommom]

google thieves oil!!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The History of Thieves
Europeans began producing essential oils in the 12th century. During the Plague of the 15th century, certain thieves robbed the dead without becoming infected. Finally, four thieves were captured in Marseilles, France, and charged with robbing the dead and dying victims of the plague.

At the trial, the magistrate offered them leniency if they would reveal how they managed to avoid contracting the dreaded infection, in spite of their close contact with infected corpses. It was disclosed that these thieves were perfumers and spice traders who had rubbed themselves with a concoction of aromatic herbs (cinnamon, clove, and oregano).

[Cicero]

Well, I can scarcely think of a likelier place than Ukraine to suffer from a lab-made plague put together under the direction of a man who has a habit of poisoning his enemies with outré substances.

[DoughtyOne]

189 deaths out of over one million known cases, is a mortality rate of 0.0189% or less.

[algernonpj]

I came across this article that I find interesting. WHO redefined the meaning of pandemic early this year:

How U.N. redefined 'pandemic' to heighten alarm over H1N1

[BOBTHENAILER]

I'm rereading a great book "The Last Centurian", John Ringo, which reminds me of some FR authors, in that it is very close to a lot of today's headlines and is foreward looking for it's time.

It has a plague which is scarily similar to reports on this one and it really nails the liberal bend towards socialized medicine. Great work of fiction, conservative outlook and reminds me of some superb FR authors.

[VOA]

“President Yushchenko said: “People are dying. The epidemic is killing
doctors. This is absolutely inconceivable in the 21st Century.””

Not absolutely inconceivable.
When you 800-pound gorilla neighboring nation wishes you ill.
And ran (still runs?) one of the deadliest bio-chem weapons programs
in the history of the Earth.

And they wish you ill. (so to speak)

OH, and it is often doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers that are the
“carnaries in the coal mine” when something really nasty erupts
in terms of a biological plague.

[what's up]

death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected

What is it with people getting so terrified by numbers like these?

189 is a drop in the bucket compared to the population. Sheesh.