I Posted this comment literally minutes before I saw this article, and now I am really impressed: I compared the genomic sequence of the swine flu to previous influenza strains and found the best concordance is with H5N1 and H3N2:
“These are the genomic sequences of the viruses isolated so far: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/SwineFlu.html
I did a comparison of sequences for two major proteins of the swine flu strains isolated in California (ACP41932) and Texas (ACP41934).
I was shocked at the results: The closest matches to the Polymerase/hemagglutinin proteins are from the following accession numbers: ABM 92273, ACI06178, ABR87650 and ABR 87645. You can look up the origin of these viruses by entering the accession numbers in the search line on this page:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein
But the summary is that they are isolated at either the CDC, the USNavy research unit in Nasr, Cairo, the US AF institute for operational health in TX, or the Pasteur institute in Cambodia. The polymerase protein is from Indonesian H5N1 and the Hemagglutinin is from H3N2 or H1N1 north american strains.
I did all of this using the NIH/NCBI website which anyone could use. If this were truly a naturally occurring virus as a result of antigenic drift, the lab strains and the strain we are seeing would not be so closely related because it rapidly mutates.
This is scary because in all my training I cannot think of a reason someone would make a virus like this. It is not highly deadly, and it is sensitive to Oseltamivir. My suspicion is that this may be a very unstable virus and it will mutate into a more dangerous virus as it blows through the population. And obtw I do have a degree in Biochemistry, I am not trying to feed conspiracy, just passing along information.”