Musings of Wired Pig Archived

No, I’m not going to write about the B.S. over H1N1 (Swine Flu) here. What I am going to write about is the flu epidemic that is raging in Ukraine.

Within 5 days of the outbreak – which started October 29th, a reported 500,000 people were infected in Ukraine⁽¹⁾ . Currently, sources have put the number ill between 1.2 million ⁽²⁾ and 1.4 million⁽³⁾ . With 315 dead in official reports⁽⁴⁾ , and up to 3,000 dead in unofficial reports. Up until October 30, Ukraine had only reported 2 cases of H1N1⁽⁵⁾ .

Initial reports were that the ‘flu’ causing the illness was H1N1, but this strain is not behaving as H1N1. Rather it is causing hemorrhagic bleeding in the lungs⁽⁶⁾ which is not indicative of H1N1.

The WHO (World Health Organization) and CDC have stepped in to investigate with the WHO stating that, in the two cases they examined, the cause was H1N1⁽⁷⁾ . Additionally, the WHO has taken samples for gene sequencing, but has failed to release the data⁽⁶⁾ . As virulent as the strain seems to be, the WHO has failed to call for a ban on air travel to/from Ukraine, something that it called for immediately after the H1N1 outbreak began in Mexico.

While the WHO has failed to act, Ukraine’s neighbors have begun to check Ukrainians entering their countries, with Slovakia closing all but one of its border crossing points to Ukraine⁽⁸⁾ . Ukraine has banned gatherings, closed schools and restricted travel⁽⁹⁾ .

More disturbing information that the spread of this pandemic may have been planned. On August 14,2009, Joseph Moshe was taken into custody for an alleged plot against the White House⁽¹⁰⁾ . But that isn’t the story. The story comes in the comments here and here. According to those comments, on August 13th, Moshe called into the Story Behind the Story show on the Republic Broadcasting Network and spoke to the host, Dr. A. True Ott -

“The would-be bomber, Joseph Moshe, called into the Dr True Ott Show on Republic Broadcasting and said he was a microbiologist who wanted to hand over evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 vaccines being produced by Baxter pharmaceutical. He claimed that that Baxter’s lab in the Ukraine was in fact preparing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He maintained that the vaccine contained both adjuvants designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 global pandemic. That’s it. He made no threat against Obama, nor said anything about bombs or any attack. The following day he was hauled out of his red VW beetle by a SWAT team and arrested. He was immediately extradited to Israel, where he has dual-citizenship, and hasn’t been heard from since. All this talk portraying him as being a right-wing nutcase is disinformation designed to keep his disturbing comments from alarming the public.”

“Project Camelot⁽¹¹⁾ and Bill Deagle reported another side of this story involving Joseph Moshe, a biological­-scientist with a dual citizenship in Israel and mussad traning in biological warfare, hence his ability to withstand the tear gas attack. Moshe phoned Dr. Tru Ott’s radio show and said that he had evidence that the vaccine company Baxter was making a bioweapon that would cause a plague when the vaccine was released.

The day after Moshe phoned the radio show, a swat team surrounded his Volkswagen Beetle near the Federal building near the Israeli consulate which was apparently Moshes destination. The mainstream media spun a story that Moshe had threatened the White House with a bomb, that there were outstanding warrants against him and that he was depressed. No mention of that Moshe was a biological­-scientist or the information he provided on Dr. True Otts radio show about the vaccine company Baxter.

NBC LA reported on Aug 17 that Moshe was in jail but Dr. Deagle says that Moshe has been sent to Israel.”

Listen to a radio program from August 19th detailing part of Moshe’s call to the radio show.

Baxter, as mentioned in the two comments above, operates a bio research facility in the Ukraine⁽¹²⁾ with an office listed as 29 Beresnyakovskaya st, 02098 Kiev. Baxter was previously in the news for mixing live Bird Flu (H5N1 – 60% mortality rate) with its Human flu vaccine (H3N2). This news came to light in February 2009⁽¹³⁾ .

From the article -

The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn’t die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses.

Public health authorities concerned about what has been described as a “serious error” on Baxter’s part have assumed the death of the ferrets meant the H5N1 virus in the product was live. But the company, Baxter International Inc., has been parsimonious about the amount of information it has released about the event.

On Friday, the company’s director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have suspected.

“It was live,” Christopher Bona said in an email.

The contaminated product, which Baxter calls “experimental virus material,” was made at the Orth-Donau research facility. Baxter makes its flu vaccine — including a human H5N1 vaccine for which a licence is expected shortly — at a facility in the Czech Republic.

People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility⁽¹⁴⁾ . That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.

From Czech Tv.

On October 31, Kiev newspaper editors got dozens of calls about light planes doing aerosol spraying during the day. In refuting the claims, the district’s Emergency Response office said “no permission had been granted for small aviation aircraft to fly within the city limits.” Yet eye-witness accounts from Lviv, Ternopil, and other Ukraine cities said the same thing.⁽¹⁵⁾

Prior to Oct 31, there were minimal of H1N1 reported in Ukraine. After October 31, the number skyrocketed to over 500,000 in less than a week.

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All footnotes are for reference only. These have no bearing on the information presented above and may include: side thoughts, more links or just more scattered information. Read at your own risk.

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1. See source from Pravda here. Dated 110609. [↩]
2. Source from Tribe.net here. Dated 111309. [↩]
3. See Canadian Free Press article here. Dated 111709. [↩]
4. See SFO Examiner article here. Dated 111509. [↩]
5. Source here. [↩]
6. See source at The Flu Case here. Dated 111609. [↩] [↩]
7. See Canadian Free Press article here. [↩]
8. See Reuters article here. Dates 110709. [↩]
9. See NYT article here. Dated 103109. [↩]
10. Source Huffington Post here. Dated 081409. [↩]
11. See website here. [↩]
12. See source here. [↩]
13. See source here. The Toronto Sun, dated 022709. [↩]
14. The facility is listed a BSL3 – Bio Safety Level 3 facility. Such commingling of strains should not have happened in such a facility. [↩]
15. Source here and here. [↩]

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