What I find fascinating about the media reaction such as the news media to the Swine influenza outbreak is the way this is being portrayed as a purely Mexican issue. It would appear that on the main outbreak was centred around the huge industrial scale pig farms in the area operated by a subsidiary of a large US corporate interest in the La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State, Mexico. Movement of pigs from La Gloria area to other sites in the southern US states would explain the disease vector in the early weeks of the outbreak of the swine flu. Yet there appears a complete lack of interest by the news media in what might ultimately be the root cause of this outbreak, which could lead to a world wide pandemic.

http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosu...-of-events.html

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Residents believed the outbreak had been caused by contamination from pig breeding farms located in the area. They believed that the farms, operated by Granjas Carroll, polluted the atmosphere and local water bodies, which in turn led to the disease outbreak. According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to "flu." However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms. It was unclear whether health officials had identified a suspected pathogen responsible for this outbreak.

Local health officials had implemented several control measures in response to the outbreak. A health cordon was established around La Gloria. Officials launched a spraying and cleaning operation that targeted the fly suspected to be the disease vector. State health officials also implemented a vaccination campaign against influenza, although sources noted physicians ruled out influenza as the cause of the outbreak. Finally, officials announced an epidemiological investigation that focused on any cases exhibiting symptoms since 10 March.


How do you get the bird flu gene into old swine flu to create this new Swine Flu virus - feed rendered birds with bird flu imported from the far east to sick pigs in central America with old style swine flu on an industrial scale. I honestly really wouldn't be surprised. frown