Baxter Files Swine Flu Vaccine Patent a Year Ahead of Outbreak --US20090060950A1 to Baxter International filed 28th August 2008 By Lara 10 Jul 2009 Baxter Vaccine Patent Application US 2009/0060950 A1 --'In particular preferred embodiments the composition or vaccine comprises more than one antigen.....such as influenza A and influenza B in particular selected from of one or more of the human H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, H5N1, H7N7, H1N2, H9N2, H7N2, H7N3, H10N7 subtypes, of the pig flu H1N1, H1N2, H3N1 and H3N2 subtypes, of the dog or horse flu H7N7, H3N8 subtypes or of the avian H5N1, H7N2, H1N7, H7N3, H13N6, H5N9, H11N6, H3N8, H9N2, H5N2, H4N8, H10N7, H2N2, H8N4, H14N5, H6N5, H12N5 subtypes.'
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.
You can find many patents for influenza vaccines which will mention H1N1 strains because H1N1 strains are COMMONLY vaccinated against. Again, there's more than one H1N1 strain known. This patent simply says that the method could be used to produce influenza vaccines, including against H1N1 strains. This is NOT a patent that specifically mentions 2009/H1N1!
No conspiracy ..A lot of mis/Dis information
Hybrid Turkeys with swine flu...Or is it avain flu ..or some manufactured flu..?
Man there is a lot of mis/dis information around about all this Swine flu/H1N1 B.S..
( I know the Turkey farm in question, as well as some of the people,used to live around the area at one time.!)
No arguement that the "Turkeys " have a Flu,The Flu ,but I would argue,confidently that it is
not a PIG flu ...Ridiculous! ...
So how does this go?..Write the turkeys off under "swine" flu and still sell the meat ..Others slaughter all their live stock to avoid a potential health risk...
The Canadian health minister has been clear to point out that the "SWINE" flu is no risk to Meat....
How many people have died due to ,ONLY, swine flu with no underlying illness?
There are/have been so many conflicts and holes in this "swine" flu
story right from the start .Spewed recklessly from the very people who are suppose to be the
Professionals .....Very sad...Time to get the truth out there medical communitee ..!
The Biggest Myths About Swine Flu - Â*Lifestyle - MSN CA
We'll have to wait and see the comparisons between the swine flu numbers and "NORMAL" flu numbers this year ..
A lot of myths to be sure ..Spread from a lot of false over done advertising....
Swine Flu Epidemic and Pork - How Eating Pork Spreads the Swine Flu Epidemic
CBC News - Health - Swine flu: FAQ
This flu was manufactured ...It would take years for 1 animal to infect another with a flu then transfer that to humans...
I am almost convinced that this flu was caused by mixing too many vaccines /anti biotics together...There is no other way a flu could spread from animal to animal so fast
H1N1 - Think it will never really touch you?
Swine Flu, a conspiracy?
Flu is not the biggest danger ...... It's the vaccine
Many swine flu deaths linked with second infection
> This flu was manufactured ...It would take years for 1 animal to infect another with a flu then transfer that to humans... <
I really don't see how you think your conclusion that 2009/H1N1 was manufactured. I have seen no evidence whatsoever to suggest that 2009/H1N1 was engineered. In fact, the best evidence I know of CLEARLY supports the hypothesis that 2009/H1N1 arose from nature.
Five research articles offer an explanation for the origin of H1N1 (Brockwell-Staats et al., 2009; Garten et al., 2009; Gibbs et al., 2009; Kingsford et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2009). The explanation is based on facts, including gene sequences of previously known influenza viruses. While it is possible that H1N1 was engineered, there is no direct evidence of this.
A simple summary of the five articles offering an explanation for 2009/H1N1's origin follows. The WHO's early response to Gibbs' suggestion that H1N1 escaped from a lab by saying that there's no direct evidence of this (Hitt, 2009), which Gibbs' article agrees with.
Influenza A virus genome consists of 8 negative sense ssRNA segments: M, NA, PB1, PB2, PA, NP, NS and HA. Influenza viruses change by reassortment, which occurs when two different influenza viruses infect one cell and RNA segments are mixed. Pigs are thought to be reassortment vessels for influenza because they can be infected by swine, avian and mammalian strains (Webster et al., 1992).
Pandemic 2009/H1N1 resulted through reassortment between Eurasian swine H1N1 (ES-H1N1) and triple reassortment swine H1N2 (TRS-H1N2). The M and NA segments came from the ES-H1N1 and other 6 came from TRS-H1N2.
TRS-H1N2 has been circulating in North America since 1998. It has PB1 and NA segments from human H3N2 influenza; PA and PB2 segments from avian influenza; NP, M, NS and HA segments from classical H1N1 swine influenza. When ES-H1N1 and TRS-H1N2 reassorted, the M and NA segments from H1N1 were packaged with the six other segments from H1N2. 2009/H1N1 is this new 2+6 'package' of gene segments.
The likely "parent" strains of 2009/H1N1 have been known to be circulaing in nature for at least a decade prior to the appearance of 2009/H1N1.
Viruses are small particles of protective protein coats, sometimes enveloped by a membrane, and inside is genetic material. In the case of influenza A virus, that genetic material is RNA (instead of DNA). The RNA in the virus is made up of eight single stranded segments of negative sense RNA (contrast this with a bacterial chromosome which is a usually a large, circular piece of double stranded DNA).
One way that influenza viruses are known to evolve is by reassortment. Reassortment occurs when two influenza viruses infect the same cell. During the packaging process, when the RNA is being packaged, the segments can mix and match. This is called reassortment. Each virus has to have at least one of each segment (note they have names). So there are 2^8 = 256 different possible reassortments that can occur between two different influenza A strains.
2009/H1N1 is just one reassortment. The segments that were exchanged and their origins is what's explained in the articles cited above (2 segments from one influenza, 6 segments from the other).
Brockwell-Staats C, Webster RG, Webby RJ. (2009) Diversity of Influenza Viruses in Swine and the Emergence of a Novel Human Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1). Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 3: 207 - 213.
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Garten RJ, Davis CT, Russell CA, et al. (2009) Antigenic and Genetic Characteristics of Swine-Origin 2009 A(H1N1) Influenza Viruses Circulating in Humans. Science. 325: 197-201.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/325/5937/197.pdf]
Gibbs AJ, Armstrong JS, Downie JC. (2009) From where did the 2009 'swine-origin' influenza A virus (H1N1) emerge? Virol J. 6: 207.
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http://www.virologyj.com/content/pdf/1743-422x-6-207.pdf]
Hitt E. (May 14, 2009) Novel H1N1 Flu a Naturally Circulating Virus, Not From a Laboratory. Medscape Medical News.
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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702862]
Kingsford C, Nagarajan N, Salzberg SL. (2009) 2009 Swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) resembles previous influenza isolates. PLoS One. 4: e6402.
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Smith GJ, Vijaykrishna D, Bahl J, Lycett SJ, Worobey M, Pybus OG, Ma SK, Cheung CL, Raghwani J, Bhatt S, Peiris JS, Guan Y, Rambaut A. (2009) Origins and evolutionary genomics of 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic. Nature. 459: 1122 - 1125.
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Webster RG, Bean WJ, Gorman OT, Chambers TM, Kawaoka Y. (1992) Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses. Microbiol Rev. 56: 152 - 179.
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