Dozens in Mexican city ill with suspected avian flu

[Tenbear2808]

And it the article states that UN laws will supersede US law in a pandemic - how coincidental?

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57868

[Suzanne]

Handing our national sovereignty over to the UN scares me a whole lot more than the thought of an avian flu pandemic. We would have a chance of surviving the bird flu, but I don't think that we would ever regain national control over our country. JMHO

[Justdust]

This specific situation already was addressed at the recent Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada, where officials released a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic. It also sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies.

The "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza" was finalized at the SPP summit last month in Montebello, Quebec.





It does sound coincidental doesn't it?

[TomT]

Thanks for keeping us all updated on "avian flu" developments - we all do need to keep informed :thumb

Of all the many reported "threats" of massive human outbreaks - going back years - the "avian flu" has not yet morphed into the dreaded mass killer that some in the media have insisted was weeks or months away from occuring :idunno

...and before we get too alarmed of fearful this time around keep in mind that World Net Dailyhas a long record of hyperbole and hyping of scary events ... :panic

[cbressler1976]

***This is a weird one that I found.....kind of scary!



DOZENS IN MEXICAN CITY ILL WITH SUSPECTED AVIAN FLU

September 28, 2007

WorldNetDaily.com reports: “Dozens of people in a Mexican city are gravely ill with what is being treated as a possible outbreak of avian flu, according to a new report from a Spanish-language website.

El Universal is confirming that authorities in a neighborhood in Guanajuato 45 patients have been given medical attention at the area's hospital after they reported symptoms including extreme headaches, stomachaches, vomiting, diarrhea and other weaknesses.

The cases have developed over the last two weeks, and ‘feel [like] death,’ according to Silvia Villalobos, one of the victims who spoke to El Universal correspondent Xochitl Alvarez in Spanish.

A spokesman for the regional general hospital, Ernesto Castle, indicated he does not know the cause of the problems, but officials are looking at an avian flu virus, which is transmitted by birds and is similar to botulism, as a source.

He reported at least 45 patients have been given emergency room medical attention, while other individuals went to their private physicians for help.

One man reported his wife was hospitalized after the symptoms hit, waking her with fever and chills, before she fainted.

Guadalupe Gomez, a resident of the area, said her concern was that the epidemic was being carried by flies attracted by leather processed in the tanning industry, which includes leathers from other nations.

City spokesman Jose Eusebio Olague said officials have directed that barricades be set up so that the sick do not spread the infections even further…”

[cbressler1976]

Heres a link....

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57868

[cbressler1976]

another one....



AVIAN FLU CONFIRMED IN SASKATCHEWAN

September 28, 2007

CBC News reports: “Avian influenza has been confirmed at a large chicken farm near Regina, officials with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday.

The H7N3 strain of the virus found at Pedigree Poultry at Regina Beach is fatal to birds, but is not dangerous to humans, the agency said. All 50,000 birds at the farm will be destroyed with carbon dioxide gas over the next few days.

‘We could consider the entire premise to be infected,’ CFIA veterinary specialist Sandra Stephens said.

Speaking to reporters in Regina, Stephens said the farm-produced eggs will be hatched at another facility, but added that the virus couldn't be carried by chicks born from those eggs.

Stephens said the H7H3 subtype is not normally associated with serious human illness. When asked whether any of the people around the farm have been tested or were sick, Stephens said that was a question for health officials.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded to the news by closing the border.

‘USDA is barring imports of all live birds, including chickens, turkeys and others, along with unprocessed avian products from the entire province of Saskatchewan,’ the USDA's chief veterinary officer, John Clifford, said in a news release…”

[C. Little]

"authorities in a neighborhood in Guanajuato say 45 patients have been given medical attention at the area's hospital after they reported symptoms including extreme headaches, stomachaches, vomiting and diarrhea."

That's happened to me everytime I've ever gone to Mexico!

[Witness4Jesus]

I doubt it is Bird Flu H5N1. Why? because 45 ill... none with respiratory distress. Also, no death and H5N1 is deadly.

My guess is that it is something nasty but not H5N1.

Witness

[lisaann]

"authorities in a neighborhood in Guanajuato say 45 patients have been given medical attention at the area's hospital after they reported symptoms including extreme headaches, stomachaches, vomiting and diarrhea."

That's happened to me everytime I've ever gone to Mexico!

:heh