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It’s Mutating – Brazil Finds New Strain of H1N1 Virus
Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute said Tuesday.
The variant has been called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1 by the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute, which compared it with samples of the A(H1N1) swine flu from California.
The genetic sequence of the new sub-type of the H1N1 virus was isolated by a virology team lead by one of its researchers, Terezinha Maria de Paiva, the institute said in a statement.
The mutation comprised of alterations in the Hemagglutinin protein which allows the virus to infect new hosts, it said.
It was not yet known whether the new strain was more aggressive than the current A(H1N1) virus which has been declared pandemic by the World Health Organization.
The genetic make-up of the H1N1 virus and its subvariants are important for scientists.
Pharmaceutical companies are working to mass produce a vaccine against the current A(H1N1) flu.
There are fears though that it could mutate into a deadly strain, much in the same way as the 1918 Spanish flu — also an A(H1N1) virus type — did when it killed tens of millions around the planet.
According to the WHO, 36,000 people in 76 countries have been infected with the H1N1 virus, causing 163 deaths.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.594b3919f568748326be82a3a65d7646.241&show_article=1
I enjoy knowing things first hand.Please continue to send me information about this NEW
STRAND OF H1N1.
Thank You,pat Lester.
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36,000 cases worldwide – an average flu season in the US alone has that many and more. Fewer than 200 deaths reported worldwide – US has at least 10 times that many in a human flu season, mostly among elderly and at-risk popualtions. Is this really a “pandemic” or a scare tactic?
Worldwide, many countries lack basic heath services and sanitation – Mexico’s large number of cases was due to that. Other nations are in even worse circumstances.
I’m sure the mutated virus will be more deadly this winter – Big Pharma is working to make it so. And their vaccine will be worthless, as was the one in the “swine flu epidemic” in 1976. (as well as last year’s which did not even have the right flu strain in it). But the 1976 vaccine caused an epidemic itself of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which often causes paralysis of a week or more, as well as other side effects that may be much longer lasting.
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Jennifer Denning Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Hi Margaret,
I agree 100% with your remarks. Big Pharma cannot be trusted, and this latest ‘flu’ outbreak is being hyped up. Big Pharma makes loads of cash selling their vacines!
Keep well and be happy,let none of us be fearful.
Jennifer
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[...] is the second report of this virus mutating. The “immunizing” vaccine is headed for production to be ready for this [...]
The Spanish Flu deaths were thought to be caused by the strept bacteria, not the flu.
We have to take care of ourselves and live in the knowing that this virus will fail to do it’s intended damage. We are protected.
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I disagree with the San Paolo presentment.
Many patients since onset have had this hemagglutinin sequence/variant. Initially the entire sample pool from Toronto was the hemagglutinin sequence only.
Interestingly, and suspiciously, some areas did NOT present with all 8 sequences in sampling. Some areas presented with only ONE.
Beware the hidden agendas.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
Swine flu samples tested and in the gene bank
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wow so there is a chance that there is a mutation?
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