By Patrick Wood and Dr. Rus­sell Blay­lock, MD
April 28, 2009

Are glob­alist fear-mongers dri­ving the media to panic the public into uni­versal health­care solu­tions? Or federally-mandated vaccinations?

By def­i­n­i­tion, a “pan­demic” is an epi­demic that is geo­graph­i­cally wide­spread. Fear-mongers are always careful to add the innu­endo that mil­lions of people could and prob­ably will die, as in the Spanish Flu pan­demic of 1918 that killed between 20 and 100 mil­lion people worldwide.

Excuse me, but how does the death of even a few hun­dred equate to 20 million?

Mexico, not the usual South­east Asia, is the origin of the latest flu out­break. It has spread in lim­ited num­bers to sev­eral con­ti­nents. Almost all of the deaths, lim­ited as they are, are in Mexico. The ratio of deaths to infec­tions is very small.

Again, how does this out­break even remotely qualify as a pan­demic? Answer: It does not!

Sci­en­tists and virus researchers are baf­fled because the genetic makeup of the virus con­tains ele­ments of human, swine and bird flu from three geo­graphic regions: North America, Europe and Asia. Until now, this has been unknown in nature, but not the­o­ret­i­cally impos­sible.  (see New flu com­bines pig, bird, human virus and  Mexico Seeks to Stop Spread of Deadly Flu)

Because of its unique genetic makeup, this writer pro­poses calling it the “flying pig flu”, or FPF, instead.

This writer is hardly qual­i­fied to write with authority about the sci­en­tific side of viruses. How­ever, after reading sev­eral author­i­ta­tive papers on swine and avian flu, sev­eral obser­va­tions can be made.

In the world of virus experts, there are two types of researchers: Observers and Exper­i­menters.

Observers

Most researchers are highly trained sci­en­tific observers. These “Sher­lock Holmes” sci­en­tists examine the pathology of virus devel­op­ment. Where did it orig­i­nate? What ani­mals or human were involved? Did the infected humans handle ani­mals? Are cer­tain strains lim­ited to geog­raphy? You get the idea.

Without good observers, we would know little about the source or spread of dif­ferent viral strains.

There are sev­eral good Internet resources where the find­ings of research observers are pub­lished. (For instance, see H5N1 – Ulti­mate News on muta­tion)

We should be thankful for astute observers who can untangle mys­teries that would oth­er­wise not be understood.

Exper­i­menters

A minority of researchers are exper­i­menters. This group is worrisome.

Exper­i­menters estab­lish their play­ground in trying to create dif­ferent types of viruses in order to mea­sure their effect on test animals.

Such was the case at Baxter AG, when such an exper­i­ment was “acci­den­tally” released as a live virus in a vac­cine dis­trib­uted to 18 coun­tries. (See Baxter: Product con­tained live bird flu virus). In this case, the live H5N1 virus (avian flu) was com­bined with the much more con­ta­gious (human) H3N2 virus.

Experts say that it is almost impos­sible for Baxter to make such a grievous error by acci­dent. Czech news­pa­pers, where the story was orig­i­nally broken, sug­gest it was a rogue employee or a mole that pur­posely mixed the virus’ together, but nothing has been proven as yet. Baxter is now under great sus­pi­cion that it is attempting to foment a pan­demic that would bring hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars in rev­enue to supply its normal H5N1 vaccine.

Another example is the Center for Dis­ease Con­trol in Atlanta, Georgia. In a 2004 report, CDC to mix avian, human flu viruses in pan­demic study, it was noted that,

“The Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) will soon launch exper­i­ments designed to com­bine the H5N1 virus and human flu viruses and then see how the resulting hybrids affect ani­mals. The goal is to assess the chances that such a “reas­sor­tant” virus will emerge and how dan­gerous it might be.”

Critics wor­ried that such a “franken-virus” could itself cause a pan­demic if it escaped from its cre­ators. The CDC’s only response is that their facil­i­ties were more secure than others who had expe­ri­enced breaches of some sort in years past.

Why would the CDC risk world expo­sure to an arti­fi­cially cre­ated virus? According to the above report, it was done in the name of preparedness.

As men­tioned above, exper­i­menters are a wor­ri­some lot. Real world expe­ri­ence indi­cates that they are gen­er­ally over­con­fi­dent in their sci­en­tific prowess and in their abil­i­ties to con­tain the unpre­dictable fruit of their experiments.

Con­clu­sion

There are some big prob­lems with the cur­rent out­break of flying pig flu. If there has been foul play, it may never be brought to light. Still, tough ques­tions need to be asked:

• While it is not unknown for pigs to become infected with the H5N1 virus, the result has always been a less-lethal and less-contagious virus than avian flu by itself. Why is this epi­demic so obvi­ously contagious?
• How would genetic code from three con­ti­nents find its way into a single strain in Mexico City?
• Is this virus an escaped exper­i­ment from a project gone awry?
• If man-made and not acci­den­tally released, then who released it, and why?

As we con­tem­plate these ques­tions, watch the stock prices of major pharma com­pa­nies sky­rocket as they gear up to sell bil­lions in vac­cines. Watch gov­ern­ments as they declare manda­tory vac­ci­na­tion pro­grams. Watch the Obama admin­is­tra­tion as it rail­roads uni­versal health­care through Congress.

Indeed, flying pig flu may be just the right name for what­ever is respon­sible for this par­tic­ular flu outbreak.

In the mean­time, we can reopen this case when pigs fly or when 10 mil­lion or so people have died, whichever comes first.

Spe­cial Guest Opinion from Dr. Rus­sell Blaylock

[Editor’s note: My friend, Dr. Rus­sell Blay­lock, is a board cer­ti­fied neu­ro­sur­geon, author and lec­turer. An expert on nutri­tion and vac­cines, he is also editor of the widely dis­trib­uted <a title=“blaylock well­ness report” href=“http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/’]);”>Blaylock Well­ness Report. Dr. Blay­lock gra­ciously sub­mitted the fol­lowing com­ments for August Review readers. I highly rec­om­mend his newsletter.]

I was in the mil­i­tary during the first swine flu scare in 1976.

At the time it became policy that all sol­diers would be vac­ci­nated for swine flu. As a med­ical officer I refused and almost faced a court mar­tial, but the mil­i­tary didnÂ’t want the bad pub­licity. Despite the assur­ance by all the experts in virology, including Dr. Sabin, the epi­demic never materialized.

What did mate­ri­alize were 500 cases of Gullian-Barre paral­ysis, including 25 deathsÂ — not due to the swine flu itself, but as a direct result of the vac­cine. At the time Pres­i­dent Gerald Ford, on advice from the CDC, called for vac­ci­na­tion of the entire pop­u­la­tion of the United States.

Today, some 33 years later, we are hearing the same cries of alarm from a sim­ilar lineup of virology experts.

The phar­ma­ceu­tical com­pa­nies are busy designing a vac­cine for the swine flu in hope that this admin­is­tra­tion will make the vac­cine manda­tory before another vaccine-related dis­aster can ruin their party.

And as before, a number of equally qual­i­fied experts are calling for calm, based on a number of care­fully con­ducted studies. To no oneÂ’s sur­prise, they too are being ignored by the media and gov­ern­ment planners.

According to sci­ence reports, this cur­rent strain of flu is H1N1. It can be forcibly inoc­u­lated into pigs, but it has been shown not to spread among the pig pop­u­la­tion. This means that the danger of a swine-based epi­demic is small.

There are sev­eral strains of this flu virus how­ever, including H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2 and H2N3. What the sci­ence has shown is that when the virus passes through the pig, it becomes less vir­u­lentÂ — that is, it is less likely to cause serious dis­ease in people. With each pas­sage, it becomes even weaker.

Since this is not the answer that the pseudo-scientists wanted, they next announced that it is “pos­si­ble” that the pigs could be infected with both the bird flu (strain H5N1) and the swine flu (strain H1N1), resulting in a mutant, highly vir­u­lent strain that could lead to a pandemic.

Note this is pure spec­u­la­tion and that no sci­en­tist has ever per­formed this trick. It is purely hypo­thet­i­calÂ — like global warming. CDC virol­o­gists claim that in the past they per­formed a sim­ilar viro­log­ical trick, but they never pub­lished their results and thus have kept the data close to the vest.

In sci­ence, espe­cially med­ical sci­ence, spec­u­la­tion is taboo. But, politi­cized sci­en­tists per­form this bit of smoke and mir­rors all the time.

So, you may ask, “What about all the people dying in Mexico?”

Over­crowding, poor nutri­tion and overall poor immu­nity, all of which are indige­nous to Mexico, are a cer­tain pre­scrip­tion for death from almost any infec­tion. [Note that despite 46 cases of this very same flu in the United States there have been no deaths. This is because Amer­i­cans, com­par­a­tively, have better nutri­tion and med­ical care.]

Like SARS and bird flu before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense.

Just take your high dose vit­amin D3 (5000 IU a day), eat a healthy diet and take a few immune boosting sup­ple­ments (such as beta-1, 3/1, 6 glucan) and you will not have to worry about this flu.