FILIPINO WITH (A)H1N1 VIRUS DIES
DOH warns of ‘more fatal’ strain
MANILA, Philippines—A 49-year-old woman died of heart attack at her home in Metro Manila on Friday, but a throat swab indicated she was infected with the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, making her death the first in the Philippines related to swine flu.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, who announced the woman’s death at yesterday’s briefing, stressed that the death was not caused by the virus but could have been aggravated by it.
The woman’s death and the rise in the number of swine flu cases in the country and elsewhere have prompted the Department of Health (DOH) to gear up for a possible virulent strain of the virus.
Dr. Yolanda Oliveros, director of the Center for Disease Prevention and Control, said a second wave of the virus would take place if the virus mutated into a “more virulent and more fatal” strain.
As of yesterday, the number of A(H1N1) cases stood at 445 after 17 more people, including two foreigners, were confirmed to have the virus.
The World Health Organization has declared a flu pandemic. As of Friday, it said more than 44,200 cases had been reported worldwide with 180 deaths, mostly in Mexico and the United States.
“We would like to emphasize that globally and locally, the overwhelming majority of cases only experience mild symptoms and eventually make a rapid and full recovery, often even without any form of medical intervention,” Duque said.
Of the 445 confirmed cases, 84 percent or 374 have already fully recovered, the DOH said.
Dry cough, fever
The woman came home from work on June 17, complaining of weakness, according to a DOH investigation.
She did not report for work the next day and went into self-medication (taking paracetamol) as she experienced dry cough, fever and chills.
On the morning of June 19, she skipped breakfast. She was restless and complained of difficulty in breathing. She died shortly before a doctor arrived.
Preexisting condition
Duque said the postmortem findings showed that the death was caused by “congestive heart failure secondary to acute myocardial infarction aggravated by severe pneumonia either bacterial, viral or both.”
The woman was also found to have an enlarged liver, spleen and kidney, tumor in the uterus and mild goiter.
“Given the available situation, we cannot conclude that the death is due to A(H1N1). But in other countries which have reported deaths, majority have preexisting medical conditions,” he said.
The woman had not traveled abroad where she could have gotten the virus.
Duque said the DOH would not have known that the patient had the virus had her brother not called him up on June 19 requesting that the autopsy include a swab test for A(H1N1) since the patient had flu-like symptoms before her death.
Nasal-pharyngeal and throat swabs were taken on June 19. The test done by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine came out positive.
Complicated case
“This is really a complicated case,” Oliveros told reporters at the briefing.
“For the past several days, she was not feeling well because she had several medical conditions and a family [member] claimed that she did not regularly seek medical attention,” she said.
In keeping with its policy on confirmed cases, the DOH did not identify the woman.
Duque would only say that the woman was based in Metro Manila. Her husband and grown-up son have also been tested since they have flu-like symptoms. But the patient’s mother, brother and sister have no flu-like symptoms.
Malacañang sought to downplay the death. “I don’t think that we have to be alarmed considering that the patient died of cardiac arrest,” Lorelei Fajardo, deputy presidential spokesperson, said at the briefing.
The first reported death related to the swine flu virus has prompted the health department to issue stronger warnings.
High-risk groups
Duque said the DOH would be “more aggressive” in targeting patients more vulnerable to fatal flu complications so they would get priority care.
The high-risk groups are those with uncontrolled diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic liver and kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other infections; organ transplant recipients; those who are immuno-compromised; pregnant women and the very young (five years and below) and the elderly.
“We want to make it clear that high-risk groups, once they have the flu symptoms should immediately go to their doctor. They should not wait for their symptoms to worsen because they are prone to many infections other than the novel virus such as our seasonal flu strains,” Duque said.
See a doctor
The health secretary said it was prudent for parents to seek professional care for children with rapid breathing, excessive drowsiness or dehydration.
“In adults, chest pain, prolonged fever or labored breathing should prompt warnings to see a doctor,” he added.
Duque said the best defense against swine flu and other communicable diseases was still to boost one’s immune system and to practice good hygiene like proper hand washing and covering one’s mouth and nose when sneezing to prevent spreading respiratory droplets.
“Most people can fight off this virus without special medications or hospitalization. You can stay at home and take supportive care like plenty of fluids, vitamins and bed rest,” he said.
The DOH has discouraged wearing masks in public since the virus is not airborne, and advised that masks should only be worn by those with flu-like symptoms to keep them from infecting others.
Masks are also reserved for caregivers and medical personnel.
In anticipation of a second wave, Oliveros said health authorities were preparing a more intensive response plan to include new “simulation exercises” to determine hospitals’ preparedness.
She said authorities wanted to ensure that basic essential services continue. Companies are encouraged to come up with their respective “business continuity plans.”
“The most important component is risk communication to reduce panic,” she said.
“Second will be health infrastructure to make sure that all our hospitals and health facilities are prepared to address the severely ill cases,” Oliveros said.
Source: Christian V. Esguerra, Dona Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:01:00 06/23/2009
Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
By Barbara Minton
As the anticipated July release date for Baxter’s A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway. Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder.
She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.
Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June 10, 2009:
In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.
Specifically, evidence is presented that the defendants, Barack Obama, President of the U.S, David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator for Influenza, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, David de Rotschild, banker, David Rockefeller, banker, George Soros, banker, Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Stoger, Austrian Health Minister, among others, are part of this international corporate criminal syndicate which has developed, produced, stockpiled and employed biological weapons to eliminate the population of the U.S. and other countries for financial and political gain.
The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the “bird flu” virus and the “swine flu virus” in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.
Burgermeister’s charges include evidence that Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties. She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.
In her April charges, she noted that Baxter’s lab in Austria, one of the supposedly most secure biosecurity labs in the world, did not adhere to the most basic and essential steps to keep 72 kilos of a pathogen classified as a bioweapon secure and separate from all other substances under stringent biosecurity level regulations, but it allowed it to be mixed with the ordinary human flu virus and sent from its facilities in Orth in the Donau.
In February, when a staff member at BioTest in the Czech Republic tested the material meant for candidate vaccines on ferrets, the ferrets died. This incident was not followed up by any investigation from the WHO, EU, or Austrian health authorities. There was no investigation of the content of the virus material, and there is no data on the genetic sequence of the virus released.
In answer to parliamentary questions on May 20th, the Austrian Health Minister, Alois Stoger, revealed that the incident had been handled not as a biosecurity lapse, as it should have been, but as an offence against the veterinary code. A veterinary doctor was sent to the lab for a brief inspection.
Burgermeister’s dossier reveals that the release of the virus was to be an essential step for triggering a pandemic that would allow the WHO to declare a Level 6 Pandemic. She lists the laws and decrees that would allow the UN and WHO to take over the United States in the event of pandemic. In addition, legislation requiring compliance with mandatory vaccinations would be put into force in the U.S. under conditions of pandemic declaration.
She charges that the entire “swine flu” pandemic business is premised on a massive lie that there is no natural virus out there that poses a threat to the population. She presents evidence leading to the belief that the bird flu and swine flu viruses have, in fact, been bioengineered in laboratories using funding supplied by the WHO and other government agencies, among others. This “swine flu” is a hybrid of part swine flu, part human flu and part bird flu, something that can only come from laboratories according to many experts.
WHO’s claim that this “swine flu” is spreading and a pandemic must be declared ignores the fundamental causes. The viruses that were released were created and released with the help of WHO, and WHO is overwhelmingly responsible for the pandemic in the first place. In addition, the symptoms of the supposed “swine flu” are indistinguishable from regular flu or from the common cold. The “swine flu” does not cause death anymore often than the regular flu causes death.
Burgermeister notes that the figures for deaths reported for the “swine flu” are inconsistent and there is no clarity as to how the number of “deaths” has been documented.
There is no pandemic potential unless mass vaccinations are carried out to weaponize the flu under the guise of protecting the population. There are reasonable grounds for believing that the mandatory vaccines will be purposely contaminated with diseases that are specifically designed to cause death.
Reference is made to a licensed Novartis bird flu vaccine that killed 21 homeless people in Poland in the summer of 2008 and had as its “primary outcome measure” an “adverse events rate”, thereby meeting the U.S. government’s own definition of a bioweapon (a biological agent designed to cause an adverse events rate, i.e death or injury) with a delivery system (injection).
She alleges that the same complex of international pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies that have developed and released pandemic material have positioned themselves to profit from triggering the pandemic with contracts to supply vaccines. Media controlled by the group that is engineering the “swine flu” agenda is spreading misinformation to lull the people of the U.S. into taking the dangerous vaccine.
The people of the U.S. will suffer substantial and irreparable harm and injury if they are forced to take this unproven vaccine without their consent in accordance with the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, National Emergency Act, National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20, and the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.
In the U.S. since 2008, Burgermeister charges that those named in her allegations have implemented new and/or accelerated the implementation of laws and regulations designed to strip the citizens of the U.S. of their lawful constitutional rights to refuse an injection. These people have created or allowed provisions to remain in place that make it a criminal act to refuse to take an injection against pandemic viruses. They have imposed other excessive and cruel penalties such as imprisonment and/or quarantine in FEMA camps while barring the citizens of the U.S. from claiming compensation from injury or death from the forced injections. This is in violation of the laws governing federal corruption and the abuse of office as well as of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Through these actions, the named defendants have laid the groundwork for mass genocide.
Using the “swine flu” as a pretext, the defendants have preplanned the mass murder of the U.S. population by means of forced vaccination. They have installed an extensive network of FEMA concentration camps and identified mass grave sites, and they have been involved in devising and implementing a scheme to hand power over the U.S. to an international crime syndicate that uses the UN and WHO as a front for illegal racketeering influenced organized crime activities, in violation of the laws that govern treason.
She further charges that the complex of pharmaceutical companies consisting of Baxter, Novartis and Sanofi Aventis are part of a foreign-based dual purpose bioweapons program, financed by this international criminal syndicate and designed to implement mass murder to reduce the world’s population by more than 5 billion people in the next ten years. Their plan is to spread terror to justify forcing people to give up their rights, and to force mass quarantine in FEMA camps. The houses, companies and farms and lands of those who are killed will be up for grabs by this syndicate.
By eliminating the population of North America, the international elite gain access to the region’s natural resources such as water and undeveloped oil lands. And by eliminating the U.S. and its democratic constitution by subsuming it under a North American Union, the international crime group will have total control over North America.
By: Richard on July 7, 2009
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