Ukraine in panic over emerging respiratory disease

This is not H1N1 2009 pandemic swine flu, also called California flu in Ukraine. People everywhere continue to refer to it as H1N1, but according to both WHO and the Ukraine government they are different diseases. The Ukraine government still reports only a handful of deaths from H1N1 California (”swine”) flu, with just one lab-confirmed death. Meanwhile both the government and WHO have been tracking the exponential increased of illnesses from severe acute respiratory illness, which have symptoms very different from H1N1 flu.

It is expected that within the next day or so WHO will release the gene sequence from tissue samples. Meanwhile speculation is rampant about what the ‘mystery disease’ actually is. Opinions range from a mutated, recombined, or man-made H1N1 to weaponized pneumonic plague or bird flu. At this stage there is no publicly available information on the cause. However, many observers say that it cannot possibly be H1N1 unless it is a different and much more virulent strain of it.

Background

On October 29 people in Kiev and cities in western Ukraine reported that light planes and helicopters had been spraying something to protect people against swine flu. Business owners were told in advance to keep doors and windows shut and to stay inside. There were many reports to local newspapers and radio stations, but local officials would not let them be published.

Within hours people were feeling ill, some reporting red rashes on their arms. Within two days a dozen people had died of severe acute respiratory illness (reported by WHO October 30 on their website), some with their lungs full of blood, fevers up to 39C-40C, and lung temperatures as high as 55C. This severe hemorrhagic pneumonia has similar symptoms to the 1918 Spanish flu, pneumonic plague, pulmonary anthrax, SARS and avian flu (H5N1).

Within a couple more days some 40 people had died, and today the death toll stands at around 100, with over half a million people infected. Most reports are calling it pneumonic plague, a bacterial infection that devastated Europe during the Middle Ages.

It is reported today that ARI cases have reached over 600,000 with 95 deaths, and that the outbreak is slowing down. (http://blog.kievukraine.info/)

On September 29-30 INTERPOL held a bioterrorism ‘tabletop exercise’ in Warsaw, Poland (http://www.interpol.int/Public/BioTerrorism/tabletop/default.asp). Now there appears to be a real bioterrorism event in eastern Europe. Dubbed the “Ukrainian plague”, there are also reports today of almost a million infected, 50,000 hospitalized, and that it has spread into Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. (http://europebusines.blogspot.com/)
Nov 7 — U.S. radio talk show host Dr. A. True Ott interviews Alexander S. Jones about the Ukrainian mystery disease outbreak –
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Are they trying to spread this thing globally? Despite internal martial law, quarantines, and travel bans, Ukraine has not closed its borders, and WHO says there is no need, as it would have no advantage in limiting the spread of the new outbreak, which WHO simply calls “severe acute respiratory illness”. However, Slovakia has closed its border with Ukraine, Russian has tightened its border, and Poland is apparently considering the same.

No solution is being proposed to combat the mystery disease that is killing so many people. The focus remains entirely on swine flu. Although prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that only a dozen have died from H1N1 and only one case has been lab confirmed, the current outbreak is still officially blamed on swine flu, which Ukraine calls California flu.

WHO has had a team in Ukraine for several days and is reported to be in control of some key government positions. Most areas of the country are quarantined, travel is severely curtailed, public meetings are banned, schools are closed for 3 weeks, and mandatory mass vaccinations for swine flu appear imminent.

The government is now rounding up anyone who speaks out against swine flu disinformation, hype and alarmism or against mandatory vaccinations. Doctors in particular are not allowed to contradict the government’s line or to speak about the cause of deaths.

CBC has called Ukraine’s flu response ‘over the top’ (http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/06/h1n1-world.html?ref=rss)

Meanwhile, election campaigning has come to a stop because of the ban on public meetings and there is speculation that the election may be postponed until May 30. President Viktor Yushchenko and prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko are running against each other.

Yushchenko was elected with a 52% majority during the famous “Orange Revolution” of 2004-2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution), after earlier 2004 election results were annulled.

Billionaire tycoon Tymoshenko, who is the only one to have held an election rally before the ban on public meetings, said not long ago: “Sometimes I really think that Ukraine needs dictatorship and rule of law. Only a dictator can maintain the rule of law in Ukraine.”

What is really happening?

It is now widely known that earlier this year Baxter intentionally distributed over 70 kg of live genetically engineered H5N1 (avian) flu to labs in 18 countries, which was discovered after tests killed ferrets in Czech Republic and homeless people in Poland.

On August 12 Israeli bioscientist and MOSSAD agent Joseph Moshe called the studio of Dr. A. True Ott after a radio talk program. He claimed that tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines were being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions and said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death. The next day his standoff with Los Angeles police was televised live. (http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/video-joseph-moshes-baxter-ukraine-plague-warning/)

Why is such a major event getting so little attention by mainstream media in North America? And why is WHO dragging its feet in releasing the gene sequences?