Guest guest Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 >Evidence is emerging that traces swine flu to giant factory pig farms Actually, no such evidence has emerged -- not so much as a trace or a scrap -- despite some of the most intensive efforts ever undertaken to trace an emerging disease back to source. See the next two e-mails. Unfortunately, because of hype and conspiracy theories advanced by people with religious, economic, and ideological axes to grind, animal rights activists among them, pigs are being massacred in Egypt, parts of India, and Indonesia, even though the sole demonstrated link between the new variant H1N1 flu outbreak and pig production is the name " swine flu, " now scrapped as misleading by the World Health Organization, OIE, and International Society for Infectious Diseases. There is at present no evidence that the components of new variant H1N1 which appear to have originated in swine at some point have actually mutated in swine more recently than 1998, and is some evidence that the crossover to humans may have occurred more than 30 years ago, when factory-style pig farming was just beginning to take over the market in North America, and had barely appeared anywhere else. There are two known cases of new variant H1N1 occurring in pigs. One infection occurred on April 14, 2009, and resulted from a carpenter who had recently visited Mexico working in a pig barn. It was, in short, a human-to-pig transmission, not the reverse, and was entirely contained within that barn. None of the pigs became seriously ill; all have recovered. The other case, described in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases in 2008, occurred in December 2005, when a 17-year-old boy became infected after helping to butcher pigs near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. This was a backyard operation, not a factory farm. -- Merritt Clifton Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE P.O. Box 960 Clinton, WA 98236 Telephone: 360-579-2505 Fax: 360-579-2575 E-mail: anmlpepl Web: www.animalpeoplenews.org [ANIMAL PEOPLE is the leading independent newspaper providing original investigative coverage of animal protection worldwide, founded in 1992. Our readership of 30,000-plus includes the decision-makers at more than 10,000 animal protection organizations. We have no alignment or affiliation with any other entity. $24/year; for free sample, send address.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 I agree, that does seem odd indeed. I would bring your own antiseptic wipes and use them for your own safety I guess. How was your trip? Anna On 14/5/09 5:27 AM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: > > I was surprised to read a news item today that the WHO forecast one in three > of the world population will catch Swine Flu before it dies down. Of course as > veggies we can assist our immune system by consuming antioxidant food such as > bright-coloured fruit and veg. > > I flew to Amsterdam and back a few days ago via easyJet and we were told > during the safety instructions to cough or sneeze into tissues. Then we > should wash our hands as soon as possible. This last instruction puzzled me. > If someone on the plane had flu and used their hands (tissue or not) then if > they walked the plane to the toilet they will leave the virus on the door > handle and probably on several plane seat tops en route. Surely it would be > safer for the rest of us for them to stay in their seat? Maybe the flight > attendants could give them an antiseptic moist tissue. > > Any thoughts? > > Geoff > PS my blog has stuff on my trip to Amsterdam. Saucy women, funny aromas and a > book launch with no book. > http://geoffnelder.wordpress.com/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Good idea, Anne. My trip was good, though as I say in my blog, not as expected. Plenty of semi-naked women though - you know... Geoff http://geoffnelder.wordpress.com/ , Coop <rodstruelove wrote: > > I agree, that does seem odd indeed. I would bring your own antiseptic wipes > and use them for your own safety I guess. How was your trip? > > Anna > > > On 14/5/09 5:27 AM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: > > > > I was surprised to read a news item today that the WHO forecast one in three > > of the world population will catch Swine Flu before it dies down. Of course as > > veggies we can assist our immune system by consuming antioxidant food such as > > bright-coloured fruit and veg. > > > > I flew to Amsterdam and back a few days ago via easyJet and we were told > > during the safety instructions to cough or sneeze into tissues. Then we > > should wash our hands as soon as possible. This last instruction puzzled me. > > If someone on the plane had flu and used their hands (tissue or not) then if > > they walked the plane to the toilet they will leave the virus on the door > > handle and probably on several plane seat tops en route. Surely it would be > > safer for the rest of us for them to stay in their seat? Maybe the flight > > attendants could give them an antiseptic moist tissue. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Geoff > > PS my blog has stuff on my trip to Amsterdam. Saucy women, funny aromas and a > > book launch with no book. > > http://geoffnelder.wordpress.com/ > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Two interesting/entertaining/enlightening/frightening videos to gird you against the ongoing media onslaught, which promises to get even more overbearing in the coming months. Cheers, Nora http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79chdALl58 & NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSpPs05YAc & feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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