Reports about virus raise many suspicions
There is a strange anomaly in the dispersion of the H1N1 virus. The last map I looked at showed no cases in the African continent or Middle East, except for Israel.
The World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control are constantly revising their data. The encouragement to stay home if sick and avoid public transport is a strangely strong response to such flimsy statistics. I would venture a guess that this is a terrorist exercise to evaluate effectiveness of biological weapons. It could also be a global test by WHO of preparedness for any such attack. Cases are extremely localized and are not progressing through a normal “cluster” around individual cases. I may just be crazy, but I advise a close watch on the continued aspects of this “pandemic.”
Ed Philpott
Greensboro
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Ed, your name in italics is even scarier...
Posted on May 10, 2009 7:31 AM
"I may just be crazy"
Yep.
Posted on May 10, 2009 8:29 AM
Good, Lord that's all we need: conspiracy nuts turning a simple out break of the flu into a terrorist attack.
I don't imagine a lot of Mexicans travel to Africa. Why would they go to a place more violent and poor than where they came from?
This strain started in Mexico and was spread by Mexicans coming to the US (some of them legally!), and Amerians/Europeans going to Mexico on vacation or on business.
Most Africans can't afford to vacation.
There may have been African cases that just weren't properly diagnosed or reported. After all, most of that continent is at war with itself, and public health issues are so far back on the backburner, they've fallen off the stove.
Posted on May 10, 2009 9:51 AM
"Good Lord that's all we need: conspiracy nuts turning a simple out break of the flu into a terrorist attack."
Is it any worse than the over-the-top hysteria encouragement regarding swine flu that passes for "news"?
Posted on May 11, 2009 11:30 AM