The Austrian journalist, Jane Bürgermeister, has filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO),
I'm not sure I believe that. First of all, it's not really typical for individuals to be able to file criminal charges. It's up to the police to investigate and file charges.
Have you ever taken a look at Burgermeister's site?
It's full of nonsense. I have a BSc in chemistry and am just about finished an MSc in biochemistry, so I'm familiar with genetics, viruses, etc. A lot of what's on Burgermeister's site is just nonsense. Some of the scientific mistakes are so basic that you'd fail high school science for making the mistakes. I've emailed, posted on the forum and commented on the site in order to clarify these errors, but my emails go unanswered, my posts and comments are deleted. IMO, she has no interest in the truth. Again, many of these errors are BASIC science errors that are ubiquitous on her site. I think her conspiracy claims are just nonsense.
The symptoms of 'swine flu' at present are pretty much the same as regular flu and it is easy to call everything 'swine flu' to increase the official numbers.
"Swine flu" is what the mass media calls it. In the scientific literature, it's often referred to as swine-origin influenza. I don't see how calling it "swine flu" is going to be able to "increase the official numbers."
Of course the symptoms are "pretty much the same" as the regular flu: swine origin influenza IS just another strain of influenza. It's still just another flu.
> ... Baxter International filed a patent for the H1N1 vaccine on August 28th 2008. Click here to read ...
Baxter Vaccine Patent Application US 2009/0060950 A1says: <
No, that is NOT a patent for 2009/H1N1 ("swine origin influenza"). It is NOT! As I explained in another thread:
That patent is a patent describing a new method for producing vaccines. In the patent, they list the possible viruses that this method could be used to produce vaccines for. One of those viruses, of course, is influenza because influenza vaccines are produced every year. In the patent, they give examples of the strains of influenza that could be vaccinated against and one of those strains is H1N1.
The mere mention of H1N1 does not mean this patent is for 2009/H1N1 (ie. "swine flu" from 2009). There is more than one known H1N1 influenza. If you take a look at the example in the patent, you'll see that the example H1N1 they mention is a strain from 1999 "New Caledonia." There are a bunch of different H1N1 influenzas known. NOTHING in that patent specifically mentions 2009/H1N1.
Seasonal influenzas basically ALWAYS include protection against a H1N1 strain.
Madsen writes:
'Past swine flu outbreaks have been spread from pigs to humans, who then passed the flu on to other humans. However, with A-H1N1, there have been no reported infections of pigs.
Madsen is simply wrong.
2009/H1N1 was first described in the scientific literature in April 2009. The CFIA went to Leslieville, Alberta on April 28, 2009 and found 2009/H1N1 is swine. You can find the report in Weingartl et al. (2010)
You can also use the NCBI's influenza resource to search for gene sequences of 2009/H1N1 from animals other than humans. You will find PLENTY of samples of 2009/H1N1 in animals other than humans. For example, when I searched for H1N1 strains found in swine between June 01, 2009 to April 30, 2010, I found 208 gene sequences.
Madsen was told that genetic material from the corpse provided the basis for the development of the H5N1 avian
Any direct evidence of this? I'm not going to accept something just because someone says so. As far as I recall, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 first appeared in 1997 (eg. A/chicken/Hong Kong/220/97 (H5N1)). The 1918 influenza samples were recovered from Brevig Mission, Alaska in February 1998.
1918/H1N1 pandemic influenza has 8 segments. The segments and accession numbers are:
PA - DQ208311
PB1 - DQ208310
PB2 - DQ208309
NP - AY744935
M - AY130766
NA - AF250356
NS1 - AF333238
HA - AF116575
Use those accession numbers to BLAST the results against H5N1 subtype influenzas.
As for the vaccine, Arepanrix, I haven't seen any evidence that it's particularly dangerous. The last I recall seeing, the incidence of GBS was lower than the typical 1 in 100000 than with most influenza vaccines. Furthermore, GBS is also known to occur from influenza itself, so avoiding the vaccine doesn't necessarily guarantee avoiding GBS, because influenza appears to cause it too.
Weingartl HM, Berhane Y, Hisanaga T, Neufeld J, Kehler H, Emburry-Hyatt C, Hooper-McGreevy K, Kasloff S, Dalman B, Bystrom J, Alexandersen S, Li Y, Pasick J. (2010) Genetic and pathobiologic characterization of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza viruses from a naturally infected swine herd. J Virol. 84: 2245 - 2256.
available from:
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/84/5/2245.pdf