BIO NEWS FROM MEXICO CITY

A-H1N1: A TYPICAL LAB MADE VIRUS

MEXICO.- The present A-H1N1 human influenza pandemia virus has an artificial design, says the oseltamivir (Tamiflu) chief team developer, Adrian Gibbs, described it as a typical virus cultivated in an egg for doing a vaccine. “An error could occur”, had said the 75 australian scientist in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday 11 may.

World Health Organization (WHO) are taken Australian scientist Gibbs´s paper so serious in the searh of the genetic blueprint of virus. “These things have to be dealt with straight on (…) If someone makes a hypothesis, then you test it and you let scientific process take its course.”, added Gibbs exact.

The laboratory origin of this A H1N1 strain supported by Gibbs is so serious, because he is one of the main virologists who developed the medicine that match perfectly in this virus battle: Tamiflu and Relenza. Tamiflu are strong antiviral produced by Roche, and Relenza, Zanamivir it´s also well effective in this case and produced by GlaxoSmith Kline.

Mexican Virus sustains this virus was created against mexican and latino people, witch could be more prone to have develop serious condition until to death with this disease. Mexican retired scientist, Manuel Servín, chief of the disappeared National Center for Vaccines Production  was the first who speak about a hand made design.

THE BIO ATTACK

During Bush´s war periods, Mexico´s leadership doesn´t support the military alliance against Afganistan, nor Irak resisting harshest US pressure.

An antimexican policy and an opinion trend has developed from the ultra conservative political group leaded by Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, where Samuel Huntington´s hard rightist position is taken as their flag. Huntington, a political sciences professor (in his book "Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity), says Mexico has become a danger to USA and targeted as the next enemy.

When Irak´s war came into a stagnation, USA Bush´s government begin to build a militarized wall in it´s south border with Mexico. Obama´s didn´t switch this postwar Berlin-wall like policy.

For the antimexican powerful lobby in USA, a virus could be the perfect bio-weapon if it´s matches with a genetical prototype as it seems. Mexico´s population genetic profile has already finished and published in this month by the INMEGEN (Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica). The Mexican human genomic map can be useful to design medicines, but also bio-weapons.

Today, INMEGEN is going to conducting a research questioning why porcine influenza virus is so lethal in Mexico has announced Dr. Julio Frenk Mora, INMEGEN´s director and also dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, appointed in November 2008.

As everybody knows, neoconservative American politicians loosed 2009 presidential elections and by the same time, American bio-weaponry inventories in Fort Detrick, Maryland, reported a lack of dangerous toxins and other and began a “thorough search of its freezers yesterday to ensure that it has an accurate inventory of the deadly bacteria, viruses and toxins accumulated there over a period of 40 years”, said Defense Deparment officials on February 10, 2009. 

“Col. John P. Skvorak, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, ordered a "stand-down," or pause in ordinary operations, and a complete inventory last week after 20 vials of "biological select agents and toxin" (BSAT) were discovered in a freezer box that was listed as containing only 16 vials”, reported Baltimore Sun newspaper that day in a note signed by David Wood.

 

 

BIO NEWS FROM MEXICO. Ferguson

TEN TIMES MORE INFLUENZA CARRIERS: SCIENCE 

MEXICO CITY.-  Latest reports estimate in 6,497 confirmed porcine influenza A-H1N1 virus cases all around the world, and a research team said virus bearers toll could be ten times higher than ill people, so there were as 23,000 carriers here by the end of april.

 Dr. Neil Ferguson,  a mathematical biologist at the Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, has published in Science magazine their calculus about the present influenza A pandemia, and says disease is fatal only in four cases between a thousand.

 

The pandemia has the same behavior than the 1957, but world is better prepared, says the article. Conclude consistently that the outbreak begans February 15 (in La Gloria, Perote, Veracruz), and there could be as less as 6,000 infected persons and as high as 32,000 at the end of april.

 The course of disease looks like a seasonal influenza with 1.2 or 1.6 secoundary cases by each case, and discard the

20 or 30 percent of global population infected fears of a worst pandemia scenario. At this point has an expected spread.

  "Our study shows that this virus is spreading just as we would expect for the early stages of a flu pandemic. So far, it has been following a very similar pattern to the flu pandemic in 1957, in terms of the proportion of people who are becoming infected and the percentage of potentially fatal cases that we are seeing”, said Ferguson.

 By the way, some signs of a new mutation in the humane influenza virus are worrying specialists. The drift is the process in which influenza virus undergoes mutation. The amount of change can be subtle or dramatic, but eventually as drift occurs, a new variant strain will become dominant. This process allows influenza viruses to change and re-infect people repeatedly through their lifetime and is the reason influenza virus strains in vaccine must be updated each year.

Are Mexico and Latino targets of an intentional influenza attack?

México, (mexicanvirus).- Mexicans and latinos could be genetically suceptible to get invaded by A-H1N1 virus, said today the genomics specialist, Dr. Julio Frenk Alatorre. This statement has propelled big questions about the real origin of the atypical virus that has become a global challenge, fostering the military design theory.

During the press conference to make public the Mexican people genomic map, Frenk speak about the virus outbreak´s behavior that has been more fatal in Mexico than in other countries. Genetics studies has discovered, Mexicans are prone to get or developed diseases like diabetes and some cardiopathies. Frenk is director of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica).

Some critics vowed that A-H1N1 with a human, swine and avian genetic material could be designed as a military bio-weapon. This supposition has a lot of implications. The second part of this theory is how virus entered to Mexico.

Do this pandemia begins as an accidental leak from Fort Detrick, Maryland bio-weaponry inventories?

On February 10, The Washington Post newspaper reports

U.S. Army Biodefense Lab Halts Research to Check Inventory

Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009

The U.S. Army suspended most studies at its primary biological defense laboratory Friday to ensure that all of the site's lethal disease agents are included in inventory records, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Jan. 6).

"I believe that the probability that there are additional vials of [biological select agents and toxins] not captured in our ... database is high," Col. John Skvorak wrote in a Wednesday memorandum to employees at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. (David Dishneau, Associated Press/Google News, Feb. 9).

Added to this, in june 1977 there was another A influenza pandemia, but nobody treats this outbreak in so scandalous way as in 2009. Health alarms in those days does not alert the world in such way. Why?